>>Hello,
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>>A client asked me whether we support open interfaces. What should I think about this, and what does this mean for a VFP application?
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>>Thanks for your input in advance.
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>Was that the same guy who was doing touch screen right click with right pinky ?? <g>
>What do you mean exactly by open interfaces ?

They have a requirement saying the program/database should be open to other trusted systems to retrieve/extract information.

The thing is, that I am not sure whether this is typically done by letting other application log directly onto the database, or whether it is better to write program interfaces in VFP that could be used for that matter by the other applications.
Since the other applications would run remotely, I think, the only way to do that in VFP would be to use a webservice or something like that.
I am not sure whether I am on the right track, but I can imagine that this is a typical requirement.