... are there plans for ADO support from Zope in the future??
Darn, As much as I want to build with Zope, I move fast and furiosly with .ASP, hope that ADO is considered.....
There are no plans to support ADO in the way I believe you are thinking of it (e.g., using ADO objects in the way you would from an .asp page). Zope takes a fairly fundamentally different approach to things like data access than ASP. A core design goal of Zope is to provide a structured object environment that encourages the separation of content and logic rather. In Zope, rather than having a bunch of templates that contain content, code, database queries and possibly sensitive db login information all mixed up together, you effective build an object oriented interface to your data. For example, lets say a simple app just gets employee info from a back end db. In Zope, you might: o create a folder 'MyApp' o add a db connection to the folder o add an SQLMethod that uses that connection called 'GetEmployees', using a query that gets all employees o add a report ('report.html') that acts as the UI for the app. What you have done, in effect, is created an "object" ("MyApp") with a "method" ("GetEmployees") which your content managers can call (in report.html) without knowing or caring about SQL, databases, etc. The dtml in the report can be pretty simple: <ol> <dtml-in GetEmployees> <li><dtml-var name> ... </dtml-in> </ol> The important point is that from a Zope development point of view, it really doesn't make much difference what db you are using - you would approach the app building process in the same basic way. You don't have to know or care about the api of the specific database in use - if you have a Zope DA for that db, you can treat it like any other. Hopefully this explains our point of view on why exposing a specific api (even a fairly decent one like ADO) for use directly in DTML a la ASP is unlikely. That said, it would probably be quite trivial for someone to implement an ADO-based DA for Zope - though I don't think that's the question you were asking... Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com