John,

I may have something amiss in my understanding of things, but what sense would making the back-end an OLE-DLL make??? Seems to me it would serve exactly one user.

Cheers,

Jim N

>>Is it possible to pass a object ref to an out of proc exe. I am trying to determine the best method of transporting data in a 3-tier client server ( all 3-tiers are vfp) system.
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>You middle and backend tiers should be OLE DLLs and not out-of-process EXEs. If they are OLE DLLs, then, yes.