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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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