Omaha PHP Users: The first public beta of PHP5 was announced this weekend. Zeev Suraski has an ongoing Q&A about php5 here: http://www.zend.com/php/ask_experts.php my $.02 summary: php5 to be finalized toward the end of this year curl is unbundled register_globals is not going away project for session handling etc.. http://www.vl-srm.net/ no threading planned no strong typing, instead type hinting instead of multiple inheritance, PHP 5 introduces "interfaces" to use JNI to instantiate Java objects and access them as if they were PHP objects Zeev firm on no overloading Mat