Linux World has an introduction to CORBA in 2 parts. Here's part 1: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-09/lw-09-corba_1.html Of particular relevance to our interests, the demo uses the ILU Python/CORBA system. Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------+