From: "Shaw, Howard" <ShawH@STHS.org> Does this mean that when Zope is stopped and restarted, it is as if every External Method has its 'edit' button repushed? If I change code in an External Method, but don't manually reload it, it will be reloaded the next time the Zope process restarts? This seems to conflict with Christoforou's description... Perhaps DC can clarify?

External Methods are (to the best of my knowledge) evaluated and their compiled code is kept in process memory (effectively cached) the first time the object (the External Method object pointing to a particular module/method) is activated. It is removed from process memory when the object is de-activated. This is kindof a tricky process and may be effectively cleaned up in the near future so I won't go into too many details here. An important thing to keep in mind is (again, this may change soon) that the compiled code is kept locally in each External Method Object. If you have two EM's in Zope pointing to the same code, you have to use the "Edit" button on _both_ External Method objects to effectively reload it. .jPS | jeffrey@digicool.com zope, through the web. www.zope.org