[Zope3-dev] Re: zope3 instance with no zodb

[Michael Haubenwallner]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I remember Shane asking this a while ago and seem to remember the answer 
> was "no", but I'm hoping that's changed.
> 
> Is it possible to have a Zope 3 instance that has no zodb backing at all?
> 
> I've been mocking up an app, currently in Zope 2, and have ended up 
> using PostGresSQL as the data store (haven't done an rdb app in ages, 
> foreign key constraints are nice, etc) and it occurred to me that with 
> sqlalchemy, zsqlalchemy and some views that I don't actually need a zodb.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 

Maybe not exactly what you want, but a mappingstorage creates a db stub 
in RAM -- cf http://blog.d2m.at/2006/10/27/look-ma-no-hands/ for an example.

Michael

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