I have searched on this topic a bit but then could not find what I am looking for so posting my Zope questions here. Scenario: We have decided to use Zope as the web frontend to our python based application. So this will be implemented as Zope product. We have already started reading the docs available on zope.org. So far we have decided to use zope behind apache+fastcgi server to take advantage of apache rewrite engine and to serve static content. Questions: 1. Startup custmization: How can one configure zope to load instance of this as product (my application) on the startup but not the ZMI and other zope stuff. 2. We want to generate xml using ZPTs and then apply xsl. Is the server side transformation supported? 3. Is there any good doc available that describes how to do things you do in ZMI programmatically? 4. Zope 2.7 / 3 ? Any pointers/suggestions? If you know any links that addresses above topics please let me know. TIA.