<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"><head><title>Twisted Documentation: Twisted Glossary</title><link href="../howto/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></head><body bgcolor="white"><h1 class="title">Twisted Glossary</h1><div class="toc"><ol></ol></div><div class="content"><span></span><dl><dt><a name="AbsoluteSubmodelPaths">Absolute submodel paths</a></dt><dd> The full path to a <a href="#model">Model</a> object, starting at the root. For example, <code>/foo/bar/baz</code></dd><dt><a name="adaptee">adaptee</a></dt><dd> An object that has been adapted, also called <q>original</q>. See <a href="#Adapter">Adapter</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Adapter"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.components.Adapter.html" title="twisted.python.components.Adapter">Adapter</a></code></a></dt><dd> An object whose sole purpose is to implement an Interface for another object. See <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Application"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.application.service.Application.html" title="twisted.application.service.Application">Application</a></code></a></dt><dd> A <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.application.service.Application.html" title="twisted.application.service.Application">twisted.application.service.Application</a></code>. There are HOWTOs on <a href="basics.html">creating and manipulating</a> them as a system-administrator, as well as <a href="application.html">using</a> them in your code. </dd><dt><a name="Authorizer"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.authorizer.Authorizer.html" title="twisted.cred.authorizer.Authorizer">Authorizer</a></code></a></dt><dd> (Deprecated; this is part old cred) An object responsible for managing <a href="#Identity">Identities</a>. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.authorizer.html" title="twisted.cred.authorizer">twisted.cred.authorizer</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Avatar">Avatar</a></dt><dd> (from <a href="#Cred">Twisted Cred</a>) business logic for specific user. For example, in <a href="#PB">PB</a> these are perspectives, in pop3 these are mailboxes, and so on. </dd><dt><a name="Banana"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.banana.Banana.html" title="twisted.spread.banana.Banana">Banana</a></code></a></dt><dd> The low-level data marshalling layer of <a href="#Spread">Twisted Spread</a>. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.banana.html" title="twisted.spread.banana">twisted.spread.banana</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Broker"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.pb.Broker.html" title="twisted.spread.pb.Broker">Broker</a></code></a></dt><dd> A <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.pb.Broker.html" title="twisted.spread.pb.Broker">twisted.spread.pb.Broker</a></code>, the object request broker for <a href="#Spread">Twisted Spread</a>. </dd><dt><a name="cache">cache</a></dt><dd> A way to store data in readily accessible place for later reuse. Caching data is often done because the data is expensive to produce or access. Caching data risks being stale, or out of sync with the original data. </dd><dt><a name="COIL">COIL</a></dt><dd><q>COnfiguration ILlumination</q>. It is a (stagnant and incomplete) end-user interface for configuring Twisted applications. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.coil.html" title="twisted.coil">twisted.coil</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="component">component</a></dt><dd> A special kind of (persistent) <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.components.Adapter.html" title="twisted.python.components.Adapter">Adapter</a></code> that works with a <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.components.Componentized.html" title="twisted.python.components.Componentized">twisted.python.components.Componentized</a></code>. See also <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Componentized"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.components.Componentized.html" title="twisted.python.components.Componentized">Componentized</a></code></a></dt><dd> A Componentized object is a collection of information, separated into domain-specific or role-specific instances, that all stick together and refer to each other. Each object is an <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.components.Adapter.html" title="twisted.python.components.Adapter">Adapter</a></code>, which, in the context of Componentized, we call <q>components</q>. See also <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="conch"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.conch.html" title="twisted.conch">conch</a></code></a></dt><dd>Twisted's SSH implementation.</dd><dt><a name="Connector">Connector</a></dt><dd> Object used to interface between client connections and protocols, usually used with a <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.protocol.ClientFactory.html" title="twisted.internet.protocol.ClientFactory">twisted.internet.protocol.ClientFactory</a></code> to give you control over how a client connection reconnects. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IConnector.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IConnector">twisted.internet.interfaces.IConnector</a></code> and <a href="clients.html">Writing Clients</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Consumer">Consumer</a></dt><dd> An object that consumes data from a <a href="#Producer">Producer</a>. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IConsumer.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IConsumer">twisted.internet.interfaces.IConsumer</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="controller">controller</a></dt><dd> (In <a href="#Woven">Woven</a>) an object which accepts input from the user in the form of mouse clicks, keypresses, and web form submissions, and updates the <a href="#model">Model</a> component. </dd><dt><a name="Cred">Cred</a></dt><dd> Twisted's authentication API, <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.html" title="twisted.cred">twisted.cred</a></code>. See <a href="cred.html">Introduction to Twisted Cred</a> and <a href="pb-cred.html">Twisted Cred usage</a>. </dd><dt><a name="credentials">credentials</a></dt><dd> A username/password, public key, or some other information used for authentication. </dd><dt><a name="credential-checker">credential checker</a></dt><dd> Where authentication actually happens. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.checkers.ICredentialChecker.html" title="twisted.cred.checkers.ICredentialChecker">ICredentialChecker</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="CVSToys">CVSToys</a></dt><dd>A nifty set of tools for CVS, available at <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/users/acapnotic/wares/code/CVSToys/">http://twistedmatrix.com/users/acapnotic/wares/code/CVSToys/</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Deferred"><code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.html" title="twisted.internet.defer.Deferred">Deferred</a></code></a></dt><dd> A instance of <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.html" title="twisted.internet.defer.Deferred">twisted.internet.defer.Deferred</a></code>, an abstraction for handling chains of callbacks and error handlers (<q>errbacks</q>). See the <a href="defer.html">Deferring Execution</a> HOWTO. </dd><dt><a name="Enterprise">Enterprise</a></dt><dd> Twisted's RDBMS support. It contains <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.enterprise.adbapi.html" title="twisted.enterprise.adbapi">twisted.enterprise.adbapi</a></code> for asynchronous access to any standard DB-API 2.0 module, and <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.enterprise.row.html" title="twisted.enterprise.row">twisted.enterprise.row</a></code>, a <q><a href="#ROW">Relational Object Wrapper</a></q>. See <a href="enterprise.html">Introduction to Twisted Enterprise</a> and <a href="row.html">Twisted Enterprise Row Objects</a> for more details. </dd><dt><a name="errback">errback</a></dt><dd> A callback attached to a <a href="#Deferred">Deferred</a> with <code>.addErrback</code> to handle errors. </dd><dt><a name="Factory"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.protocol.Factory.html" title="twisted.internet.protocol.Factory">Factory</a></code></a></dt><dd> In general, an object that constructs other objects. In Twisted, a Factory usually refers to a <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.protocol.Factory.html" title="twisted.internet.protocol.Factory">twisted.internet.protocol.Factory</a></code>, which constructs <a href="#Protocol">Protocol</a> instances for incoming or outgoing connections. See <a href="servers.html">Writing Servers</a> and <a href="clients.html">Writing Clients</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Failure"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html" title="twisted.python.failure.Failure">Failure</a></code></a></dt><dd> Basically, an asynchronous exception that contains traceback information; these are used for passing errors through asynchronous callbacks. </dd><dt><a name="Identity"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.identity.Identity.html" title="twisted.cred.identity.Identity">Identity</a></code></a></dt><dd> (Deprecated). A <a href="#Cred">Cred</a> object that represents a single user with a username and a password of some sort. </dd><dt><a name="im">im, t-im</a></dt><dd> Abbreviation of <q>(Twisted) <a href="#InstanceMessenger">Instance Messenger</a></q>. </dd><dt><a name="InstanceMessenger">Instance Messenger</a></dt><dd> Instance Messenger is a multi-protocol chat program that comes with Twisted. It can communicate via TOC with the AOL servers, via IRC, as well as via <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">PB</a> with <a href="#Words">Twisted Words</a>. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.im.html" title="twisted.im">twisted.im</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Interface"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.components.Interface.html" title="twisted.python.components.Interface">Interface</a></code></a></dt><dd> A class that defines and documents methods that a class conforming to that interface needs to have. A collection of core twisted.internet interfaces can be found in <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces">twisted.internet.interfaces</a></code>. See also <a href="components.html">Interfaces and Adapters</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Jelly">Jelly</a></dt><dd> The serialization layer for <a href="#Spread">Twisted Spread</a>, although it can be used seperately from Twisted Spread as well. It is similar in purpose to Python's standard <code>pickle</code> module, but is more network-friendly, and depends on a separate marshaller (<a href="#Banana">Banana</a>, in most cases). See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.jelly.html" title="twisted.spread.jelly">twisted.spread.jelly</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Lore">Lore</a></dt><dd><code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.lore.html" title="twisted.lore">twisted.lore</a></code> is Twisted's documentation system. The source format is a subset of XHTML, and output formats include HTML and LaTeX. See <a href="../man/lore-man.html">lore(1)</a> and the <a href="policy/doc-standard.html">Twisted Documentation Standard</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Manhole">Manhole</a></dt><dd> A debugging/administration interface to a Twisted application. </dd><dt><a name="Marmalade">Marmalade</a></dt><dd> An XML-based serialisation module. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.persisted.marmalade.html" title="twisted.persisted.marmalade">twisted.persisted.marmalade</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Microdom">Microdom</a></dt><dd> A partial DOM implementation using <a href="#SUX">SUX</a>. It is simple and pythonic, rather than strictly standards-compliant. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.web.microdom.html" title="twisted.web.microdom">twisted.web.microdom</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="model">model</a></dt><dd> An object that contains data and business logic for manipulating this data. </dd><dt><a name="modelStack">model stack</a></dt><dd> A stack of <a href="#model">Model</a> instances which keeps track of the Model that is currently in scope during the <a href="#Woven">Woven</a> Page rendering process. </dd><dt><a name="Names">Names</a></dt><dd>Twisted's DNS server, found in <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.names.html" title="twisted.names">twisted.names</a></code>.</dd><dt><a name="overrides">overrides</a></dt><dd> (In <a href="#Woven">Woven</a>) A way to add data to cached data. Overrides are not replaced when base data is updated. </dd><dt><a name="pattern">pattern</a></dt><dd> A node in a <a href="#Woven">Woven</a> HTML template whose sole purpose is to be copied and filled with data by a View component. </dd><dt><a name="relativeSubmodelPath">relative submodel path</a></dt><dd> A partial path to a <a href="#model">Model</a> object, relative to the top of the Model stack. </dd><dt><a name="PB">PB</a></dt><dd> Abbreviation of <q><a href="#PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a></q>. </dd><dt><a name="Perspective"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.perspective.Perspective.html" title="twisted.cred.perspective.Perspective">Perspective</a></code></a></dt><dd> A <a href="#Cred">Cred</a> object; an <a href="#Identity">Identity</a>'s <q>perspective</q> (or <q>view</q>) onto a Service. There may be many Perspectives associated with an Identity, and an Identity may have multiple Perspectives onto the same <a href="#Service">Service</a>. </dd><dt><a name="PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a></dt><dd> The high-level object layer of Twisted <a href="#Spread">Spread</a>, implementing semantics for method calling and object copying, caching, and referencing. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.pb.html" title="twisted.spread.pb">twisted.spread.pb</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Portal">Portal</a></dt><dd> Glues <a href="#credential-checker">credential checkers</a> and <a href="#realm">realm</a>s together. </dd><dt><a name="Producer">Producer</a></dt><dd> An object that generates data a chunk at a time, usually to be processed by a <a href="#Consumer">Consumer</a>. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IProducer.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IProducer">twisted.internet.interfaces.IProducer</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Protocol"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.internet.protocol.Protocol.html" title="twisted.internet.protocol.Protocol">Protocol</a></code></a></dt><dd> In general each network connection has its own Protocol instance to manage connection-specific state. There is a collection of standard protocol implementations in <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.protocols.html" title="twisted.protocols">twisted.protocols</a></code>. See also <a href="servers.html">Writing Servers</a> and <a href="clients.html">Writing Clients</a>. </dd><dt><a name="PSU">PSU</a></dt><dd>There is no PSU.</dd><dt><a name="Reactor">Reactor</a></dt><dd> The core event-loop of a Twisted application. See <a href="reactor-basics.html">Reactor Basics</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Reality">Reality</a></dt><dd>See <q><a href="#TwistedReality">Twisted Reality</a></q></dd><dt><a name="realm">realm</a></dt><dd> (in <a href="#Cred">Twisted Cred</a>) stores <a href="#Avatar">avatars</a> and perhaps general business logic. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.cred.portal.IRealm.html" title="twisted.cred.portal.IRealm">IRealm</a></code>. </dd><dt><a name="Resource"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.web.resource.Resource.html" title="twisted.web.resource.Resource">Resource</a></code></a></dt><dd> A <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.web.resource.Resource.html" title="twisted.web.resource.Resource">twisted.web.resource.Resource</a></code>, which are served by Twisted Web. Resources can be as simple as a static file on disk, or they can have dynamically generated content. </dd><dt><a name="ROW">ROW</a></dt><dd><em>R</em>elational <em>O</em>bject <em>W</em>rapper, an object-oriented interface to a relational database. See <a href="row.html">Twisted Enterprise Row Objects</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Service">Service</a></dt><dd> A <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.application.service.Service.html" title="twisted.application.service.Service">twisted.application.service.Service</a></code>. See <a href="application.html">Application howto</a> for a description of how they relate to <a href="#Application">Applications</a>. </dd><dt><a name="Spread">Spread</a></dt><dd><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/products/spread">Twisted Spread</a> is Twisted's remote-object suite. It consists of three layers: <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a>, <a href="#Jelly">Jelly</a> and <a href="#Banana">Banana.</a> See <a href="pb.html">Writing Applications with Perspective Broker</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Sturdy">Sturdy</a></dt><dd>A persistent reference manager for <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">PB</a>. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.spread.sturdy.html" title="twisted.spread.sturdy">twisted.spread.sturdy</a></code>.</dd><dt><a name="submodelPaths">submodel paths</a></dt><dd> A path to a <a href="#model">Model</a> object. A way of referring to a piece of data in a <a href="#Woven">Woven</a> template that allows Python to locate the data in a tree of python objects. </dd><dt><a name="SUX">SUX</a></dt><dd><em>S</em>mall <em>U</em>ncomplicated <em>X</em>ML, Twisted's simple XML parser written in pure Python. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.protocols.sux.html" title="twisted.protocols.sux">twisted.protocols.sux</a></code>.</dd><dt><a name="TAP">TAP</a></dt><dd><em>T</em>wisted <em>A</em>pplication <em>P</em>ickle, or simply just a <em>T</em>wisted <em>AP</em>plication. A serialised application that created with <code>mktap</code> and runnable by <code>twistd</code>. See <a href="basics.html">Using the Utilities</a>.</dd><dt><a name="Tendril">Tendril</a></dt><dd>A bridge between <a href="#Words">Twisted Words</a> and IRC. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.words.tendril.html" title="twisted.words.tendril">twisted.words.tendril</a></code>.</dd><dt><a name="Trial">Trial</a></dt><dd><code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.trial.html" title="twisted.trial">twisted.trial</a></code>, Twisted's unit-testing framework, modelled after <a href="http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/">pyunit</a>. See also Twisted's <a href="policy/test-standard.html">Test Standard</a>.</dd><dt><a name="TwistedMatrixLaboratories">Twisted Matrix Laboratories</a></dt><dd>The team behind Twisted. <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">http://twistedmatrix.com/</a>.</dd><dt><a name="TwistedReality">Twisted Reality</a></dt><dd> In days of old, the <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/products/reality">Twisted Reality</a> multiplayer text-based interactive-fiction system was the main focus of Twisted Matrix Labs; Twisted, the general networking framework, grew out of Reality's need for better network functionality. Twisted Reality has since been broken off into a separate project. </dd><dt><a name="usage"><code noexpand="1" class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.usage.html" title="twisted.python.usage">usage</a></code></a></dt><dd>The <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.python.usage.html" title="twisted.python.usage">twisted.python.usage</a></code> module, a replacement for the standard <code>getopt</code> module for parsing command-lines which is much easier to work with. See <a href="options.html">Parsing command-lines</a>.</dd><dt><a name="wcfactory"><code>wcfactory</code></a></dt><dd> A <a href="#Factory">factory</a> method for producing <a href="#controller">Controller</a> objects when a <code>controller=</code> directive is encountered in a <a href="#Woven">Woven</a> Template. </dd><dt><a name="wchild"><code>wchild</code></a></dt><dd> In <a href="#Woven">Woven</a>, a <a href="#Factory">factory</a> method for producing objects which represent URL segments below the current object. </dd><dt><a name="widgets">widgets</a></dt><dd> In <a href="#Woven">Woven</a>, a <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.web.woven.view.View.html" title="twisted.web.woven.view.View">View</a></code> subclass which specializes in rendering a fragment of the DOM tree. </dd><dt><a name="wmfactory"><code>wmfactory</code></a></dt><dd> A <a href="#Factory">factory</a> method for producing <a href="#model">Model</a> objects when a <code>model=</code> directive is encountered in a <a href="#Woven">Woven</a> Template. </dd><dt><a name="Words">Words</a></dt><dd>Twisted Words is a multi-protocol chat server that uses the <a href="#PerspectiveBroker">Perspective Broker</a> protocol as its native communication style. See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.words.html" title="twisted.words">twisted.words</a></code>.</dd><dt><a name="Woven">Woven</a></dt><dd><em>W</em>eb <em>O</em>bject <em>V</em>isualization <em>En</em>vironment. A web templating system based on XML and the Model-View-Controller design pattern. See <a href="woven.html">Developing Componentized Applications using Woven</a>.</dd><dt><a name="wvfactory"><code>wvfactory</code></a></dt><dd> A <a href="#Factory">factory</a> method for producing View objects when a <code>view=</code> directive is encoutered in a <a href="#Woven">Woven</a>Template. </dd><dt><a name="Zoot">Zoot</a></dt><dd>Twisted's Gnutella implementation (currently very incomplete). See <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/TwistedDocs/TwistedDocs-1.3.0/api/twisted.zoot.html" title="twisted.zoot">twisted.zoot</a></code>.</dd></dl></div><p><a href="../howto/index.html">Index</a></p><span class="version">Version: 1.3.0</span></body></html>