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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

    17   <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,

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

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    21 * a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`

    22   mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,

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    24 * a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (data model and views) that

    25   fulfill common needs,

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

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    29 * the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial

    30   for storage backends.

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

    33 daily visits at some production sites, |cubicweb| is a proven end to end solution

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

    35 efficiency.

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    37 The unbeliever will read the :ref:`Tutorials`.

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    39 The hacker will join development at the forge_.

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    41 The impatient developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv` then to :ref:`ConfigEnv`.

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    43 The chatter lover will join the `jabber forum`_, the `mailing-list`_ and the blog_.

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

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

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

    48 .. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718

    49 .. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb

    50 .. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238

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    52 .. toctree::

    53    :maxdepth: 2

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    55    intro/index

    56    tutorials/index

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    58 .. toctree::

    59    :maxdepth: 3

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    61    devrepo/index

    62    devweb/index

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    64 .. toctree::

    65    :maxdepth: 2

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    67    admin/index

    68    additionnal_services/index

    69    annexes/index

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    71 See also:

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    73 * the :ref:`genindex`,

    74 * the :ref:`modindex`,