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     6 `CubicWeb` - The Semantic Web is a construction game!

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     9 `CubicWeb` is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,

    10 that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing

    11 components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design

    12 principles.

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    14 Its main features are:

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    16 * an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model <DefineDataModel>` of the application, 

    17 * a query language name :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL, 

    18 * a :ref:`selection+view <DefineViews>` mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation, 

    19 * a library of reusable :ref:`components <cubes>` (data model and views) that fulfill common needs,

    20 * the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,

    21 * the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial for storage backends.

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    23 Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of

    24 daily visits at some production sites, `CubicWeb` is a proven end to end solution

    25 for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and

    26 efficiency.

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    28 The unbeliever will read the :ref:`Tutorial`.

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    30 The hacker will join development at the forge_.

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    32 The impatient will go strait away to :ref:`QuickInstall`.

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    34 The impatient developper will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv`.

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    36 .. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/

    37 .. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/

    38 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/

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    40 The book

    41 ========

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    43 .. toctree::

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    46    intro/index

    47    development/index

    48    admin/index

    49    annexes/index

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    53 Table of Contents

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    56 Complete :ref:`TOC`.

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    58 Indices and tables

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    61 * :ref:`genindex`

    62 * :ref:`modindex`

    63 * :ref:`search`

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