From: "Romain Slootmaekers" <romain@zzict.com>

But I can't do that because I use my SimpleItem in a process other than the zope server. and then I get problems with the lock on the Zope database. I just want to construct a SimpleItem, and store it somewhere else than the database that the zope server uses....

SimpleItem is a Zope object and most of it simply makes no sense outside of a zope environment, so my question is: What are you really trying to do?