hi all, first: i am a ZOPE newbie, so please be patient. :) what i've done til now: i've installed Apache (1.3.9 on Win2K) and i am using httpdapy to access Python-CGI-scripts. i've done some CGI programming before, and realized, that maintaining good CGI scripts is hard work. :) then i found ZPublisher (AFAIK called BOBO before, right), which i liked very much. i read the article at http://classic.zope.org:8080/Documentation/Reference/ObjectPublishingIntro and was fascinated. that was exactly what i needed. so, i got ZOPE, and got ZPublisher to work with httpdapy. great. but now i am constantly running into problems: ZPublisher works great. but i also want to use DocumentTemplate and ZODB. DocumentTemplate works ok, but if i change a .dtml, the new file isn't reloaded, so i have to restart the server, to see my changes. i know, that this is not ZOPEs fault - httpdapy is only reloading modules, which have changed, so i have also to "change" the module, which loads the .dtml file. maybe someone has a better solution? ZODB can't be used in that constellation, cause the database is locked, and if i change the main module, i get a error: StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There must be another process that has opened the file. just to be clear: i *know*, why this problems arise (well at least i have an idea). my question is: is there a way to improve the situation (i don't want to restart the web-server every time, i do a change). would it be better to use ZServer? but i don't need the "content manager" stuff. i just want to publish different types of objects (one represents a bug-database, another an archive database, ...) using ZODB to store the objects and using DocumentTemplate for defining the user-interface. i hope, i could make my problems clear. thank you for any help, you can give me, ----------------------------- .....coming from Kaweh Kazemi neo Software Produktions GmbH Email: kaweh@neo.at Look at: http://www.neo.at