Has anyone considered WDDX for Zope? This seems like a nice next step to exchanging data beyond RSS, but not as ambitious as SOAP and has SDKs for CF, perl, etc. I have some applications in mind for intranet syndication that goes beyond what RSS can do. Also there is full rdf. From: http://www.wddx.org/ Welcome to WDDX.ORG, the home of the WDDX SDK and related projects. WDDX.ORG seeks to empower Web developers with technology that enables them to create new forms of value on the Internet using distributed data and Web syndicate networks. The Web Distributed Data Exchange, or WDDX, is a free, open XML-based technology that allows Web applications created with any platform to easily exchange data with one another over the Web. To learn more about WDDX, check out the Understanding WDDX section of the site. Who created WDDX? Allaire created WDDX in order to solve key problems in exchanging data between Web applications. In particular, Simeon Simeonov, Allaire's language technology architect, created WDDX to support problems of distributed computing within ColdFusion. This work was generalized into a cross-language framework, and resulted in the creation of the WDDX SDK and WDDX.org. The WDDX SDK was created by Nate Weiss, an independent Web developer, with the support of Allaire and a number of other third parties. How does WDDX work? All of the standard programming environments on the Web (ColdFusion, Perl, ASP, Java, JavaScript, PHP, etc) include native data structures such as arrays, record sets or value pairs. WDDX provides a module for each language that will automatically serialize or translate the native data structures into an abstract representation in XML, or deserialize WDDX XML into a native data structure. For example, you could use WDDX to take a complex array in ColdFusion, serialize it into XML, send it to an ASP server, and then deserialize from XML into a VBScript array object with all the types natively converted. This conversion process between languages is relatively transparent to developers by shifting any XML processing and interaction into the WDDX modules, eliminating developers from having to directly program or manipulate XML themselves, This is not an RMI mechanism. Regards, Albert Boulanger aboulanger@vpatch.com