>Yeah, JAVA or DHTML to make things happen in a browser. VFP for middle tier data acces components. Either VFP or SQL7 as data store.
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>Charlie

Charlie, pardon me to jump in, I can see you have experience in something I need help: I do understand well the VFP data access component idea but what is the fastest method to return the resulting data from the component to VB?

Let me explain myself, I have now a class to accept SQL statements, open the needed tables, execute the queries, no problems, VFP is fast as usual. I have methods to pass the resulting cursors to xml (from classx), to ado recordsets (from classx), to arrays, to my own implementation of wrapped objects and always I can save them as dbfs or txt files.

I tested the returning-an-object method, it works great instantiating the component from the vcx (set classlib, createobject), but when I compiled the thing as a COM server, the returning object was a legitimate COM object with every piece of data inside as variant type. Accessing the information from a VFP app was way to s-l-o-w. I guess it's because the whole vfp data type-variant-vfp data types conversion.

I had not tested it with VB yet (I'm not really VB-literate but I need the UI in VB) and I'm wondering if you can give advise on the issue, what is the fastest method to share data VFP-VB-VFP?

TIA

Agustin.