[Zope3-dev] Re: Third party application configuration

[Garrett Smith]

Garrett Smith wrote:

> Our application needs some configuration settings, specifically a path 
> to a Java VM and some Java library paths.
> 
> Is there a way to tap into Zope's 'zope.conf' machinery? I.e. it would 
> be very nice to override our app settings via the command line when 
> starting Zope.

On a related note, we're using Lucene as our full text indexer (thus the 
need for the JVM info) and want to store all of the application 'data' 
in a single directory structure, which will include the zodb files.

Ideally, I'd like to see something like this for our zope.conf:

   datadir <path to data dir>
   ...
   <zodb>
     <filestorage>
       path $datadir/db.fs
     </filestorage>
   </zodb>
   ...
   <java>
     jvm <path to JVM program>
     libdir <path to our Java libs>
   </java>
   <textindex>
     path $datadir/text
   </textindex>

Is this approach going to require a hack to the zope server main module, 
or are there hooks available?

  -- Garrett