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     2 |cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!

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     5 |cubicweb| is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,

     6 that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing

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

     8 principles.

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    10 Main Features

    11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    12 

    13 * an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model

    14   <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,

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

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

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

    20 

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

    22   fulfill common needs,

    23 

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

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

    27   for storage backends.

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

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

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

    32 efficiency.

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    34 QuickStart

    35 ~~~~~~~~~~

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

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    39 Social

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    42 *   Chat on the `jabber forum`_

    43 *   Discuss on the `mailing-list`_

    44 *   Discover on the `blog`_

    45 *   Contribute on the forge_

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    47 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    55 

    56 Narrative Documentation

    57 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    58 

    59 A.k.a. "The Book"

    60 

    61 .. toctree::

    62    :maxdepth: 2

    63 

    64    book/intro/index

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    66 .. toctree::

    67    :maxdepth: 3

    68 

    69    book/devrepo/index

    70    book/devweb/index

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    72 .. toctree::

    73    :maxdepth: 2

    74 

    75    book/admin/index

    76    book/additionnal_services/index

    77    book/annexes/index

    78 

    79 Tutorial

    80 ~~~~~~~~

    81 

    82 We present two tutorials of different levels. The blog building

    83 tutorial introduces one smoothly to the basic concepts.

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    85 Then there is a photo gallery construction tutorial which highlights

    86 more advanced concepts such as unit tests, security settings,

    87 migration scripts.

    88 

    89 .. toctree::

    90    :maxdepth: 1

    91    :numbered:

    92 

    93    tutorials/base/index

    94    tutorials/advanced/index

    95    tutorials/tools/windmill.rst

    96    tutorials/textreports/index

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    98 

    99 Reference documentation

   100 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   101 

   102 .. toctree::

   103     :maxdepth: 1

   104 

   105     js_api/index

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   107 Indexes

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   109 

   110 * the :ref:`genindex`,

   111 * the :ref:`modindex`,