>I hadn't heard anything except grids, but the others would all makes sense as well. That would certainly KA.

I am still not sure this ADO thing is the best way to go. Unless I am missunderstanding this thing.

When an object is passed from a middle tier object to a front end ap, isn't it just a reference? So, IF MyApp on MyClient asks for some data from MyMiddle on MyServer...

So, MyMiddle does something like...

oConn = createobj('ADOBC.Connection')
oConn.Open("dsn=MySource")
oRs = oConn.Execute("select * from MyTable")

return oRS

Now... MyClient recieves that... isn't that a reference to an object that is running on MyServer? So, all the communications is still going over DCOM back to the server?

Thanks,
BOb