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`CubicWeb` Foundations

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A little history...

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`CubicWeb` is a web application framework developped by Logilab_ since 2001.

Entirely written in Python, `CubicWeb` publishes data from all sorts

of sources such as SQL database, LDAP directory and versioning system such

as subversion.

`CubicWeb` user interface was designed to let the final user a huge flexibility

on how to select and how to display content. It allows to browse the knowledge

database and to display the results with the best rendering according to

the context.

This interface flexibility gives back the user the control of the 

rendering parameters that are usually reserved for developpers.

We can list a couple of web applications developped with `CubicWeb`, an online

public phone directory (see http://www.118000.fr/), a system for managing 

digital studies and simulations for a research lab, a tool for shared children

babysitting (see http://garde-partagee.atoukontact.fr/), a tool to manage

software developpment (see http://www.logilab.org), an application for

managing museums collections (see 

http://collections.musees-haute-normandie.fr/collections/), etc.

In 2008, `CubicWeb` was ported for a new type of source : the datastore 

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