I am using 2.0.0b1. I am interested in whether or not anyone else is having a problem with two back-to-back communications with Zope hanging for a period of time but ultimately working? I am opening a URL on a Java client using UrlConnection which is requesting that Zope run an external method. The purpose of the external method is to create a folder and add a property to the folder. After I get the result back from the above external method, I immediately open another Url from the Java client which calls another external method which requests the information that was added (the folder's property). When I open these Url's back-to-back, I finally get the response I am looking for after about 30 seconds. If I put a 1/2 second delay before opening the 2nd Url, it eliminates the problem--I get the response immediately. But, this is a bandaid for some kind of problem. Can anyone explain what I am experiencing here--have you had similar problems? Or even better, is this something that has been fixed recently. Overall, 2.0.0b1 is stable, etc. for what I am doing, so I was trying to wait until the final general release 2.0 comes out to switch. Thanks for any help/tips/explanations you may have!