diff -r 49075f57cf2c -r aa09e20dd8c0 doc/book/en/index.rst --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/book/en/index.rst Thu May 14 12:48:11 2009 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- + +.. _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 ` of the application, +* a query language name :ref:`RQL ` similar to W3C's SPARQL, +* a :ref:`selection+view ` mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation, +* a library of reusable :ref:`components ` (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` +