I did misunderstood your post. Sorry for the confusion :(

>I think you misunderstood me. When I said that the COM server opening a table and making it available to the client is bad, I meant that making it available to the client as in a table open in a work area (it's a good thing that this can't be done, because open tables are a Fox concept, and not a server concept).
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>I didn't mean that COM servers shouldn't open and use tables, and pass data and even objects back to the client, only that ALL interaction between server and client needs to be through the server's PEMs.