Thanks a lot for the different answer to my original posting. I found the post of ara.t.how... / noaa.gov quite interesting, because it shows a very straight forward way of interfacing with c-functionality. On the the side being able to support multiple scripting language at once is a compelling outlook, too. Can someone elaborate on the portability (linux, win32, etc.) of a SWIG solution and possible performance issue, that might be connect with SWIG? And still, I am searching someone who can help me in getting a prototype starting... maybe it would just be sufficient to wrap two or three c-api calls so that I get a feeling for how to do it myself. Feurio