>>1. DON'T embed SQL into your program anywhere. (Of course, this is what we do with Views or SPT.
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> Where would they go? Don't they have to go into code at some point?
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The persistence layer will generate the SQL.. actually it will colaborate with the SQL engine which has a subclass for each database vendor, to generate the SQL based on the BizObj and CriteriaObjects that you have setup.

> Are you going to try to incorporate a "stateless" design? Or something closer to your suggestions for WebConnect a while back? Or something completely different?

Yes... the BizObjs will be able to be statefull or stateless and they will contain support for COM+ transactions (a la MTS).

OR, you could just use them in a standalone .EXE if you wanted.

BOb