All, from this week's meeting on the Java language binding, there is one issue left over that (to me) sounds like a matter of taste... For all object factories, we have two flavors, one with an explicit Session parameter, and one with an implicit (default) Session. Example: with the implicit default Session: File file = FileFactory.createFile(....); for the explicit Session parameters, there are two proposals: (a) have the create* methods in the factory classes, resulting in two create* methods each, with slightly different signature (Session parameter or not) example: File file = FileFactory.createFile(session, ....); (b) make the Session class also a factory and add all the create* methods there. example: File file = session.createFile(....); None of the people I've asked so far seems to have a strong opinion on this. Personally, I have a slight bias towards (a) as it seems to be conceptionally simpler. (objects are always created by the factories...) Also, that's as it is in the current language binding. I hereby suggest that we keep it "as is" unless somebody can convince us of the superiority of option (b). (Of course, we will change once convinced ;-) Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/