>That's exactly what anybode else would do. The idea is to take any business rules or any redandancy and bring it over a middle tier. But you still need an interface to communicate with a middle tier. There is no need to biuld that interface into a middle tier. For example I'd like to by your finacial business solutions (middle tier). But I'd like to have my own interface (different language users speak). But your server comes with an interface???? Another story to distribute interface solutions.
>Mark

Hi Mark,

I want to provide an application that can be called by VFP, VB, etc. I want the application to have a visual interface so that the end-user calling the application can make necessary selections so that certain business calculations can be performed and a RETURN of those calculations made to the end-user.

The application will have built-in tables. It just so happens that the information in the tables changes quite frequently and the calculations based on the table information changes as well. The purpose of the application is to present this ever-changing information to the end-user so that the end-user does not have to spend all of his/her time researching the changes. When the end-user calls the application, everything will be there, ready for them to make their selections and recieve the calculated RETURN.

On page 461 of Microsoft's Visual FoxPro 6.0 Programmer's Guide, it states: "When you create an executable with OLE Public Classes, you don't lose any of your normal .exe capabilities. You can still run the executable, provide a user interface, and all the normal functionality you would include in an application."

Unfortunately, the examples shown in the book all present Automation Servers created with a .prg. I am looking for an example that shows Automation Servers created with a .vcx.

Since I update client sites via modem, when I re-write my whole application, I was hoping to separate the above from the main module, thereby allowing me to make the frequent updates on the smaller module and not have to update the entire application. Also, I thought that other software vendors might be interested in the Automation Server module alone, since their software already performs some of the functionality contained in mine.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks,

TFISHER