Greetings. Has anyone heard of IBM's Aglets? This is a system of mobile objects and mobile agents that can traverse the Internet and perform tasks. Here is the link: http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/aglets It's a slightly different approach from Loci, but again, this might give us some ideas. Cheers. Jeff -- +------------------------------------+ | | | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN COLLABORATORY | | FOR MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | | | +------------------------------------+