[Zope] Sharing Database connections and/or methods between Zopes?

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:57:15 -0700


Why can't each Zope have its own database connection that points to the same
database?

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Schmidt, Allen J." <aschmidt@nv.cc.va.us>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: [Zope] Sharing Database connections and/or methods between Zopes?


> I have a database accessed with ODBC on one server (win2K) using just HTML
> tools to get to it with a working application.  There are also other Zopes
> on this server but not connecting to this database. I then have another
> server, our primary site - in Zope, and I would like to get to the data on
> the other server.
>
> Attempts to just 'point' the ODBC DSN fail. Is there any way to have one
> Zope's ZSQL methods point to another Zope's ZODBC connection? Or something
> along those lines?
>
> The regular data app will be moved to Zope but the time is not there right
> now. Looking for a quick fix.
>
> Would xml-rpc handle that? One Zope calling another Zope's ZSQL methods??
>
> Thanks
>
> Allen
>
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