>2. As opposed to remote views, the developer needs to have a list of all update parameters and pass them at the right position, not making updates transparant nor easy.
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>Walter, I know I responded to this earlier - but I want to raise this again....by "position", do you mean the specific order? If that's what you meant...it doesn't matter if I do...

You're right, you can pass them by parameter name. Now assuming the parameter name is the same as the fieldname, things are a bit easier I agree.