Zope2 startup: Zope will now send a ProcessStarting event when it

is ready to serve requests. You can subscribe to this event e.g.
for starting application-level threads. 

doc/CHANGES.txt

@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Zope Changes
 
     Features added
 
+      - Zope2 startup: Zope will now send a ProcessStarting event when it 
+        is ready to serve requests. You can subscribe to this event e.g.
+        for starting application-level threads. 
+
       - Testing.ZopeTestCase: Introduced a "ZopeLite" test layer, making it
         possible to mix ZTC and non-ZTC tests much more freely.
 

lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ except ImportError:
 import ZConfig
 from ZConfig.components.logger import loghandler
 
+from zope.event import notify
+from zope.app import appsetup
+
 logger = logging.getLogger("Zope")
 started = False
 
@@ -85,6 +88,10 @@ class ZopeStarter:
     def setConfiguration(self, cfg):
         self.cfg = cfg
 
+
+    def sendEvents(self):
+        notify(appsetup.interfaces.ProcessStarting())
+
     def prepare(self):
         self.setupInitialLogging()
         self.setupLocale()
@@ -108,8 +115,10 @@ class ZopeStarter:
         # emit a "ready" message in order to prevent the kinds of emails
         # to the Zope maillist in which people claim that Zope has "frozen"
         # after it has emitted ZServer messages.
+        
         logger.info('Ready to handle requests')
         self.setupFinalLogging()
+        self.sendEvents()
 
     def run(self):
         # the mainloop.