So what is the real issue? Do you want a continuous remote interface to chimera? Is the overhead of the --send option a problem? Please tell us. There are probably alternative solutions that are better.
Hi Greg, Yeah, the continuous remote interface, with explicit ability to access molecular objects, along with notifications of changes to the objects, are what I want. We have plenty of experience with building web services; I would suggest the following alternative (the problem being mainly a matter of increased developer time compared to the CORBA approach): convert the CORBA IDL files to XML schema, use our ZSI package to generate the Python bindings, then build a 'collaboratory hub grid service' (I say grid service instead of web service since the basic web services specs left out notification and messaging, but . All the concepts in CORBA map more or less directly to web services, so conversion of the collaboratory implementation code would be pretty straightforward. Dave