>Hi.
>
>I only recently realised that multiple instances of a VFP 5 ActiveX automation server that you build as a DLL (and for all I know,.EXE) share the same data environment (i.e. open tables, databases).

If you're running multiple instances of a DLL server they share the
same runtime. Yes, they get different copies of the class data, but
many globals including the master datasession are shared.

EXE servers do not have this problem as each instance gets its own copy
of the runtime. That is if you build the server as a Single Instance
server. Multi-Instance servers share a single copy between many objects
and again you may end with data session interaction between instances.

Really, the only safe way to get separate servers is to use
Single Use EXE servers (potentially iwth a pool manager to simulate
simultaneous access).