>>Kevin, has been fairly tight-lipped, but I know he is going to expand the concept of the abstract factory to all the class libraries. He also mentioned a lot of new builders were coming down the pike. But the most important improvements will be in the area of bizobjs. There will be a lot more web support and tighter inteegration with Web Connection.
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>Interesting. I am still not sure of the advantage of abstract factory yet. As I understand it, objects are instantiated on the fly from the Classes table. Does this imply that during run-time, you may substitute a different class in the Classes table?
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>Do you know of any work with a SQL object? I am working on my first SQL Server project, and need a SQL object for my biz objects. I am using wwSQL from West Wind, but it sounds like Kevin is going to add something himself.

What it means is that you have total control over which classes are actually instantiated without having to change the source code. Different clients can have different implementation of the same classes without having to change anything in the code. Lots of flexibility.

MM is designed to take advantage of of client/server data. The bizobj out of the box will work with remote or local data if you are using views. Read the documentation on Local and Remote data.