[Zope] using a ZODB standalone app with Zope

Hello All, I'm trying to migrate a ZODB standalone application for use in Zope. I have a module that instantiates a ZODB storage upon import and then has module functions that return the root for this database. --- storage = FileStorage.FileStorage(Config.DB_FILENAME) db = DB(storage) def get_root(): conn = db.open() return conn.root() def commit(): get_transaction().commit() --- The current setup does not work in Zope, I get timeout errors and I'm guessing that the two databases interfere somehow. What I plan to do is to make use of the database created by Zope instead. In a python script how would I go about fetching the root of the database that is used by Zope. thanks, Istvan.