A few days ago I found out about Apache Thrift, which allows one to combine projects of many programming languages and make sure they interact with as little effort as possible. Information about this seems to be pretty scarce, but the example on their website shows how to create a service in C++ and then call it via Python. So it seems that this is similar to a SOAP framework, at least with this example. It seems like it could be an interesting technology. I'm not sure how I'd use it, or if I even have any use for it for that matter, but it's on my long list of cool programs that I should check out sometime. But right now watching "Clue" sounds like it'll be more fun. Ciao