I hope that I am not beating a well-beaten horse, but a search on Google didn't seem to tell me whether it's possible to use java servelets to extend Zope sort of like python/perl externals can. So is this do-able (even if it involves invoking the servelet indirectly?)? I would prefer to use python exclusively, but it would be useful to be able to tell some IT manager simpletons that what I propose to do with Zope will include "some java" since even they have heard of java, while python draws a knowing blank (altho it's being used for regression testing by the product development people in the same company two floors down) and Zope doesn't even rate that. <rant> I spent 5 years as an IT manager and understand not wanting to make a bad decision, but I also made it a point to know what the choices were before the issue came up. It appears to me that the current breed of featherbedders is composed of appallingly political creatures who wouldn't know a router from a waffle iron. No wonder M$ has a monopoly. </rant> Richard Gordon -------------------- Gordon Design Web Design/Database Development http://www.richardgordon.net