----- Message from Terry Hancock <hancock@anansispaceworks.com> on Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:54:12 -0600 -----

You will note that these object inherit from either Acquisition.Explicit or Acquisition.Implicit -- you will probably need that to make them useful. You will also need to define a security manager for the object. And don't forget to call

Globals.InitializeClass(...)

How is Globals.InitializeClass(...) different from registering a class within __init__.py? Is a publishable class not necessarily the same as a product class, then? You also used a meta_type attribute. Do you know if this is necessary? Furthermore, do you think it is possible to store local roles in my relational tables to feed Zope's security machinery? That would be too cool!

*In concept only -- they don't use Zope's "pluggable brain" facilities which are intended for through-the-web use. Personally, I can't help thinking "Peanut Butter" everytime I see it, but what the hey.

Do you know about Twisted? From their website: The components that Twisted Spread provides are as follows: * pb: pb is the Perspective Broker. It lets you talk to remote objects, implementing semantics for object copying, caching, and referencing. * jelly: serialization for Python objects * banana: low level data marshaller