I guess this is where my original post to comp.lang.python about MSS should have gone, sorry. MSS 1.00 is out! MSS is a lightweight service framework allowing web services of all kinds to be plugged in with absolute EASE. Providing an HTTP server, error control and an easy-to-use API, MSS allows the Python developer to concentrate on the functionality of their service rather than providing a multi-threaded web serving front-end to it. Designed to be a lightweight middleware solution, MSS can be found at : http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~mjwhitel/mss Matt Whiteley