Hi Borislav
Thanks for your fast response, but still, it doesn't work...
In the meantime, being a production server, i put instead a

do case
   case lcCommand = "myfunction1"
     lAnswer = This.MyFunction1( MyXml )
   *-** etc...
endcase

This works, go figure :-)
Jaime

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>lcCommand = "This."+lcCommand+"(["+lcXml+"])"
>lAnswer = &lcCommand
>

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>>Hi
>>I have the following construct in my web service:

>>define class basecom as Session
>>  procedure Init
>>   ***blablabla
>>  endproc
>>  procedure Error ( nError, nMethod, nLine )
>>   ***bla bla bla
>>  endproc
>>enddefine
>>
>>define class myWS as basecom olepublic
>>  procedure myfunction1( inxml as String ) as String
>>   *** bla bla
>>  endproc
>>  procedure myfunction2( inxml as String ) as String
>>  *** more bla bla
>>  endproc
>>
>>  procedure myDispatch( DispXml as String )
>>   *** DispXml contains a command clause ( "myfunction1" or "myfunction2" )
>>   *** and the xml parameter to send
>>   *** so we strip those from dispxml, say to lcCommand and lcXml
>>
>>   lcCommand = "This."+lcCommand+"("+lcXml+")"
>>
>>   lAnswer = &lcCommand &&& <-- this call fails
>>
>>enddfine

>>Why the call fails? Shouldn't it call the other functions using This. ? Is there another way to get a pointer to the created com object?
>>Thanks
>>Jaime