[Zope] Zope Proxy Objects

[Christian Tismer]

This message was originally directed to Dieter Maurer.
Unfortunately, I forwarded it to the Zope list in German.
My apologies. Hier the English version:

I would like to build a Zope proxy, one of the "special kind".
The problem:
I have a database which has a free ODBC driver for Windows
only, and the client database which I want to access is also
living on Windows. Accessing it works fine with Zope's ZODBCDA.

The problem is now that our real Zope application must run under
Linux, and I would like to use the same database there.
So my ide was to have a small Zope running under Windows which
attaches to the database, and for the real Linux server,
I would write some proxy methods that makes the server think
it has direct access to the database.

Does anybody know whether something similar already exists?
I know the Zope proxy, but I'd like to do a little more,
something like a ZPROXYDA, which redirects everything to
a different server.
Does my approach make sense, or is there a simpler way?
I cannot use any paid software since this project must stay
completely open-source.

Thanks in advance - chris

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