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     3 `CubicWeb` Foundations

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     6 A little history...

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

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

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

    13 as subversion.

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

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

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

    18 the context.

    19 This interface flexibility gives back the user the control of the 

    20 rendering parameters that are usually reserved for developpers.

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

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

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

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

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

    28 managing museums collections (see 

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

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

    32 from `GoogleAppEngine`_.

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