Hi all, i've been working with glyph on some new stuff lately in the twisted world. here is a brief description of some of it: twisted.enterprise the addition of the "Augmentation" class to the adbapi give a convenient place to put database interface code. dbpassport adds database authentication of users. there are a standard set of tables for identities and perspectives, hooks for dynamic creation of perspectives from the database, and a web interface to manager it all. plans exist to add service specific database tables and user data. this piece feels pretty solid to me and is the infrastructure used for the two below pieces. twisted.metrics this is a system for monitoring distributed servers running twisted applications. it has a central database of metrics data and a real-time data cache in the metrics manager server. there is a web interface to the manager which allows real-time viewing of the status of the servers in the network. it is intended for real-time load balancing between servers and storing metrics history information for data-mining. it accepts both operating system statistics (through an OsMetrics Collector) and application specific statistics which are both correlated into the same database schema. this system is still in development, but is already functional. now that the db support is solid, it should progress quickly. twisted.forum a web based message board / posting system with a database backend. this is currently in an alpha stage. it needs work to hook up the user authentication piece, but it already has functioning forums, messages and threads. all of these systems use web widgets extensively. i have to say that web widgets are easy to use and provide a huge amount of functionality. ---- "If it's not running programs or fusing atoms, it's just bending space." Sean Riley sean@ninjaneering.com