[schooltool] first impressions

[felis at Safe-mail.net]

Hi list,

i'm running a schooltool server on fc7, on python2.4. Used to the ZMI (zope management interface), but in Zope2 versions, i was wondering if there is a management interface in which i can restart/stop the schooltool service? I now kill the server to stop it, but would like to be able to do that in the webinterface. 

Is it possible to use Schooltool as a Zope product, install it in the Products directory like other Zope related products?

In the Zope2 setup there is a possibility to use a virtualhostmonster object in order to facilitate rewriting uri's, is it possible to do that in Zope3?

Also i see a lot of ZODB.POSException.ConflictErrors, and was wondering if those are python2.4 related or perhaps still an artifact of the current development issues?

I would like to extend the amount of (relational) information in the database by adding tables, relations, functionality and views, is there a way to do this in the (web)interface? Is it possible to use a database adapter to couple SQL databases to the schooltool db like it is possible in the Zope2 environment?

Why exactly is twisted used? Couldn't a database backend do the same?

Well, a lot of questions as you can see. 
I'm testing schooltool to see if i can use it to develop a specific (web)interface for schooladministration.

kind regards,
felix