>Components are NOT COM servers. COM servers are components. A component is part of a whole. Your COM server is a component of the application that creates it is a component. The application is a component of the larger system that uses it. The system is a component of the entrprise solution that uses it.
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Hi Jim,

I think this is part of my confusion. I have been thinking that components are just a part of a whole (like you said), but thought maybe there was a special meaning in VFP, which prompted this thread.

In message#284585 and message#284567 a component (in the VFP sense) was defined as a COM Server.

I was also mistakenly thinking of components as middle tier business objects, which I've since learned is incorrect.

Thanks for the help.