>In that article they said something about losing DCOM and switching to XML\HTTP for messaging. This could be a good thing for VFP because it is such a good XML client. If this is true, VFP will really shine on as this middle tier component in a distributed application generating XML with its powerful local data engine and passing it down the wire. What do you think?
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I think the assertion that MS dropped Java because "XML is the future of web computing" is ridiculous. In most cases, the two have nothing to do with one another, and are no mutually exclusive.

Possibly they are referring to the new "Scripting Component" model that lets you define a COM object in an XML file with VBScript, or any other scripting language.