<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'll take a look thanks. I was reading the Java source for Jinterface last night, and I think I am convinced that the pure Smalltalk way is the best too. The Java code was very well documented with comments, so I should be able to build a similar interface for Smalltalk. Thanks for the answers, I'm sure I'll have more questions as I progress.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On a separate subject, are there any annual erlang user conferences? There is something coming up in October in Europe, anything in the US? Anybody on the list live in Utah?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mike</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 9, 2007, at 4:13 AM, Kenneth Lundin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">In the open source distribution of Erlang/OTP you should find a file</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">erts/emulator/internal_doc/erl_ext_dist.txt</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">which describes the protocol.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">You can also look ath the Jinterface in that distribution and read the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">doc and code</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">for the same thing written in Java.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>