>What communication solution could be recommended between an application in VFP and another in Java for the following task. The application in VFP would typically receive a command with a customer number as parameter from the Java application on another server. The VFP application would process the command and return a small set of records or update some records.
>Any suggestions?
>Petter Andersen

If the Java platform supports DCOM - I would be tempted to implemented the VFP functionality as an out of process COM Server (look for OLEPUBLIC in on-line help). VFP could return the results as a string (XML) or an ADO record set.

There are other approaches, it really depends on the number of transactions and how fast you want the response from VFP back to Java.
Regards,
Houston.