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+.. _contents:
+
+=====================================================
+`CubicWeb` - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
+=====================================================
+
+`CubicWeb` is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,
+that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing
+components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design
+principles.
+
+Its main features are:
+
+* an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model <DefineDataModel>` of the application, 
+* a query language name :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL, 
+* a :ref:`selection+view <DefineViews>` mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation, 
+* a library of reusable :ref:`components <cubes>` (data model and views) that fulfill common needs,
+* the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,
+* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial for storage backends.
+
+Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of
+daily visits at some production sites, `CubicWeb` is a proven end to end solution
+for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and
+efficiency.
+
+The unbeliever will read the :ref:`Tutorial`.
+
+The hacker will join development at the forge_.
+
+The impatient developper will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv`.
+
+.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
+.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
+.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
+
+The book
+========
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   intro/index
+   development/index
+   admin/index
+   annexes/index
+
+
+
+Table of Contents
+-----------------
+
+Complete :ref:`TOC`.
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`modindex`
+* :ref:`search`
+