Component architecture

Plone is based on component architecture introduced by Zope 3.

The archiecture provides

• Interfaces
• Adapters
• Utilities
• Events

• Interfaces
  • Introduction
  • Implementing one or multiple interfaces
  • Checking whether object provides an interface
  • Getting interface string id
  • Getting interface class by its string id
  • Applying interfaces for several content types
  • Dynamic marker interfaces
• Adapters
  • Introduction
  • Registering an adapter
  • Getting the adapter
  • Listing adapter registers
  • Local adapters
• Utilities
  • Register utility
  • Getting utility
  • Getting all named utilities of one interface
  • Unregistering utilities
• GenericSetup and profiles
  • Creating a profile
  • Add-on specific issues
  • Listing available profiles
  • Installing a profile
  • Dependencies
• Customizing Plone
  • Introduction
  • Through-the-web changes
  • Through the code changes