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

.. _contents:

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|cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
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|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 named :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 developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv`.

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
   annexes/index

See also:

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

.. |cubicweb| replace:: *CubicWeb*