The bug was that the included bootstrap.py did not work. If you use the bootstrap.py from the zam.demo svn directory it does not start. I used a more recent bootstrap.py copied from my ztfy directory, thank You Thierry, and it starts fine. It looks gorgeous. Thanks to all the authors who put in all that hard work. srichter, icemac, rogerineichen et al. I presume that this is the right place to report that bug. And the fix! You can take a look at zam.demo running at demo.zopache.org:8080 User:Manager Password: password Here is the high level zam.demo documentation which I am updating. http://wiki.zopache.org/ZamDocumentation And here is a copy of the low level file system documentation wiki.zopache.org/ZAM That is easier to access than digging through the file system. ZAM provides a large part of what I need for a TTW development environment. Sadly its navigation view, the one that should implement listing objects in a folder, adding, renaming, deleting, and exporting them has not been implemented. The page template file in zam.skin is empty. For that functionality I can use ZMI. So I need to first get ZMI working with ZAM, and then copy over some of the ZMI source code to zam.skin. It is not so easy. ZAM uses an older release of ZTK, from two years ago. Specifically it uses a different version of ZCA interface than ZTFY uses. So I cannot add zam.demo to ZTFY. Going the other way, ZAM does not have a setup.py file. How is that possible? I thought setup.py did a whole bunch of important things. Do I go ahead and update the buildout.cfg file with the zmi? , or do I redo the zam.demo installation scripts to use a setup.py file? What I really need to do is hire a senior ztk developer to provide me with high level guidance. Anyone interested? Regards Chris