hi folks, i've got some beginner questions about zope. i spent a fair amount of time with various documentation, but couldn't find the answers. first, the specific question. the docs talk about publishing objects, with zope translating URLs to method calls. i get the impression that i can call arbitrary Python objects through zope, but i can't get it to work. i've tried it with IIS and the included HTTP server. let's say i want to call somemethod() in test.py. the docs say that http://localhost:9673/test/somemethod will do it. but where should test.py live? what's the home document directory of the builtin HTTP server? and if i use IIS, how do i get it to use zope. by calling http://localhost:9673/manage, i can access the zope ODB, but not python modules outside the database. is this possible? using IIS, i could access ODB objects via http://localhost/zope/cgi/zope.exe/manage, but again, how do i get to the python objects? do the modules have to exist in the zope ODB? if so, how do i import them? i know about external methods, but it seems cumbersome to create them, method by method, object by object. what i want to do is create a web application for reading and writing information from a database (a registry of trainers and trainings). i have begun developing this using ASP, IIS, and SQL Server. i'm always looking for non-microsoft alternatives. it looks like i can develop business objects in python that model the business rules, then use zope to access the objects and control the presentation. in another language, those business objects would encapsulate the database access. i know zope has database adapters, but if i don't already have data in a relational database, do i even need to use one. could the application be implemented solely with the object database? i'm used to relational databases, so when i start with new projects i start with the database. but maybe the zope ODB provides what i need... any ideas? thanks in advance for your time. -scott ----- Scott Lewis Baltic Avenue Productions csl@balticave.com