doc/book/en/index.rst
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:52:15 +0200
changeset 9462 375fc1868b11
parent 8698 b2443e266661
permissions -rw-r--r--
[ldap] simplify connection handling since we deleted ldapuser source, we don't need anymore the get_connection and ConnectionWrapper stuff (that was used to put the ldap connection into the cnxset). Also, we should simply let connection errors propagate so this is properly reported to import logs.

.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

.. _contents:

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|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
  <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,

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

* a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`
  mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,

* a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (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:`Tutorials`.

The hacker will join development at the forge_.

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

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

.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718
.. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb
.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   intro/index
   tutorials/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   devrepo/index
   devweb/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   admin/index
   additionnal_services/index
   annexes/index

See also:

* the :ref:`genindex`,
* the :ref:`modindex`,