Fellow Zopistas: Despite the fact whatever Jim Fulton may think about the merit of the idea, I wrote a first cut at a Zope Product that allows you to plug normal Bobo objects into Zope. It is basically a slightly hacked version of External Method which I am calling External Objects. You can get it at: http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib It is only lightly tested, and should not be considered official. However, it does seem to let you more or less plug existing Bobo modules into Zope. To use it download the tarball. Ungzip and untar it in your Zope directory. Now shutdown and restart Zope. Now you should have be able to create External Objects. To create an external objects object, proceed like you are creating an external method. Copy your module to either 'Zope/Extensions' or 'Zope/lib/python/Products/SomeProduct/Extensions'. Your module should define some toplevel Bobo objects. Now create the External Objects object. Specify your module name and the names of the objects you want to use. The list of objects should be space delimited. That's it. Now you can access your Bobo objects as attributes of the External Objects product. Notes: If your objects use Acquisition, they will be correctly patched in to the Zope object hierarchy. If your objects use BoboPOS, you should not/cannot store your objects in Zope's object database. I'm not sure what the right thing to do here is... There may be a good solution to this problem, I just haven't though the issue through at all. This is just an experiment, and I only wrote it because I suggested it and no one else seems to have written it yet ;-) Have fun. -Amos