Zope can be managed through the web, or via the filesystem. There are no major planned changes to the Zope architecture. For example, currently some products are built in the filesystem and some are built in the object database. We want to remove this distinction so that all components can be edited via the filesystem and live in the object database. Applications Zope applications are built out of components.
Components are pluggable, reusable, and persistent code modules.
Components are written by developers. Site designers build applications by gluing together components with scripts and presentation templates. The major planned changes to applications is the gradual phasing out of DTML as a presentation and scripting tool. Instead we will focus on using Python and Perl Scripts for scripting, and Presentation Templates for HTML presentation. Using special tag attributes you can connect your template to dynamic Zope data.