>In general, how would you recommend creating transfer/conversion program?

Hi Robert,
I've done this sort of thing a few times before but never bothered using business objects for it! I always handle it as a straight procedural code conversion. My feeling is limit the time invested in an activity like this since you only need it for a short life span (ideally).

Now maybe you in the situation where your data conversion code will have to live as long as the the eventual app will (like to tie together an old legacy app that will never die with the new app). If that's the case, then I could justify what your doing here with business objects. But if your just looking for a data loading mechanism to load in the data first to develop the app with, then reload the data once more for production... why bother with all this objectified overhead? This is the type of situation I've always had on my hands when need to write conversion code, and just take as little time as possible to whip up some crude loops (SCAN/ENDSCAN... the occaisional DO WHILE... and even a few SCATTER/GATHERS) and get the data from point A to point B period. My feeling is the sooner you get the data converted, no matter how crude you method for converting is, the better - because that's all the sooner you get to start writing the real code for the app.