<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>Hi Simon   > If your service is itself making a D-Bus call as a client (i.e. it's some > sort of proxy), note that all D-Bus method calls (in dbus-python and dbus-glib > at least) can be made synchronously or asynchronously, regardless of how the > service is implemented.   This is correct, my service is essentially a proxy for another service, it adds a little additional business logic which parses some XML and what not. So, what you are suggesting here is that within my service, I call my 3rd party service in the same way in which I call my own service from my client? (wow that was confusing). So effectively I can call a synchronous service, in an asynchronous manor, is that correct?   Failing that then you're probably right, a worker thread might work, either that or kick the guys who built the original library and try fixing it so its a asynchronous call.   Thanks mate,   Robert <hr />She said what? About who? <a href='http://www.msnsearchstar.com' target='_new'>Shameful celebrity quotes on Search Star!</a></body> </html>