Mike,

Thanks again!!

I'm thinking that people will need to "get" the concept and paring it down helps.

Best,

DD

>>Anyway, from what you're saying doesn't my analogy still hold up,
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>Yup.
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>> that there has been a separation of content (ie. data) and presentation
>> (ie.ui)? No matter what the transport mechanism is (I thought XML but you're
>>saying it's more than that - SDL) wouldn't this be a good way of
>>conceptualizing this?
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>Yup, the conceptualization is fine. I was trying to emphasize that the data is not necessarily in XML or any other format.
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>>I like your analogy of Web Services being like a COM server a lot.
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>And it's not even that much of an analogy. The SOAP toolkit lets you turn your VFP COM servers (or any other COM server) into a Web Service with little effort, using the Wizard.
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>> I was just trying to extend that into the ui & business logic pieces....
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>Makes sense to me, and I think your thinking is fitting.