James> Thank you for the help, but...this must be some new definition of James> the word "easy" with which I was previously unfamiliar. :-) [ several questions, some of which occurred to me, snipped ] My sentiments exactly. It would appear that Principia and Zope traded off Bobo's simple object publishing model for a very nice way to manage hierarchical web sites. The extra complexity added under the covers looks like it will make it very difficult to convert existing CGI-based sites to Zope. I have a site that uses 30-40 CGI scripts to do its business. At this stage, converting them looks like it will be fairly difficult. If I'm missing something, please fill me in. If not, is there some simpler way to publish objects through Zope other than the current Product API? Thx, Skip