* BlueBream is built on top of the Zope Tool Kit (ZTK), which has many years of experience proving it meets the demanding requirements for stable, scalable software. * BlueBream uses the powerful and familiar Buildout system written in Python. * BlueBream employs the Zope Object Database (ZODB), a transactional object database providing extremely powerful and easy to use persistence. * BlueBream registers components with Zope Component Markup Language (ZCML), an XML based configuration language, providing limitless flexibility. * BlueBream features the Zope Component Architecture (ZCA) which implements Separation of concerns to create highly cohesive reusable components (zope.component). * BlueBream implements Python Web Server Gateway Interface WSGI using Paste, PasteScript, and PasteDeploy. * BlueBream includes a number of well tested components to implement common activities.

* Stripes is simple in that it doesn't force developers to grok everything about it in order to get started. By not having to know all the details, or even that many of them exist, it's easy for a developer to get the basics and get started. A perfect example of this is the interceptor framework, and the before/after methods. A developer can be blissfully ignorant of these with no negative consequences. But when a need for such a function arises, they are easy to discover. * Stripes, at its core, is an action framework and action frameworks as a whole don't shy away from the fact that the entire web is implemented on top of a stateless protocol (HTTP). It supports backward compatibility.