I've moved this to zope@zope.org instead of zope-dev... You want ZEO, but you want to run it over a dedicated VPN between your 2 locations, for security purposes. You want to have objects accessable to 2 zopes. And you really can't do this very easily without use of (a) ZEO, or (b) some sort of web-services (lots of work using XML-RPC or something like that). You can't do distributed objects well in Zope with any other way, AFAIK. DBTab only makes sense as a way to mount a ZEO storage, without ZEO it makes no sense. If you can't go the ZEO route, and therefore can't share objects, you need to look into another way to share more raw data between your Zope instances (i.e. XML-RPC, HTTP scraping, Relational Database, etc). If you just need to sync data occasionally, you could also look at ZSyncer. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Tena Sakai [mailto:tena.sakai.b@bayer.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:33 PM To: sean.upton@uniontrib.com Cc: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] zope connector Many thanks, Sean. Your idea sounds interesting and require more investigation on my part. I need to write application on a remote zope server (via wan, not part of our domain, but an extranet site) to access database tables on my domain. I don't think the other server has ZEO running. (Neither do I, but I can do it since zope server is mine.) The other side may so "No," in which case would I still be able to do what you say with DBTab? Ie., without ZEO on the other side? Thank you. Tena Sakai sean.upton@uniont rib.com To: tena.sakai.b@bayer.com, zope-dev@zope.org Sent by: cc: zope-dev-admin@zo Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] zope connector pe.org 02/18/2003 02:14 PM Use ZEO and DBTab and a shared mounted object database that both Zope instances have access to. Put any objects that need to be accessed by both Zope servers in that common storage mounted at some folder-level in your zope setup. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Tena Sakai [mailto:tena.sakai.b@bayer.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:56 PM To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] zope connector Folks, I am interested in accessing resorcces from two or more zope servers. For example, <br> hahaha! <br> <dtml-var name=funny> <br> hohoho! <br> The code snippet above will, when rendered, yield: hahaha! hehehe! hohoho! provided that the entity funny ultamately returns hehehe! and accessible within the name space. But how could I do this if the object funny is on a different zope server? Ie., how can I connect two name spaces on different zope servers in some not-so-caotic fasion? Thanks in advance. Regards, Tena Sakai _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )