ducasse wrote:

> could you tell us a word or more ;) on acquisition?

Thanks Eric for the detail...

The real short answer is: out of the box, Zope gives you two kinds of 
inheritance. The first is regular class inheritance; the second is 
acquisition, which, in the webserver metaphor means that if I have an 
object (an image, for instance) available in the namespace at the top 
of the hierarchy, I can refer to it "locally" six folders down. This is 
incredibly handy for web work, because, for instance, you can build a 
single navigation system at the top level and simply refer to it all 
the way down the tree. Zope's built-in security/access model lends 
itself really nicely to this, too.

  - John Maxwell
    jmax at sfu.ca