Kevin,

As you know, I was very intrigued by your sessions at DevCon and the review of MM in FoxTalk by Kelly Conway.

I’m in the planning stages for a re-write of a legacy Fox2.6 app using VFP and I want to see if I understand the basic principals behind using the MM framework.

This new app will have a desktop UI (for in house data entry) and most likely a web UI (for client entry/lookups) using Web Connect (in the future). There is a lot of data entry on a daily basis, so the data entry screens needs to be fast. I’m sure that is not a problem with MM.

The data will be stored in VFP tables.

A major part of the existing system are jobs scheduled at night that print reports and fax them using WinFaxPro with DDE.

If I understand how to use MM correctly, I would have to:

1)create data environments for business objects
2)create business objects which contain data environments
3)optionally business objects can refer to other business objects
4)optionally create rules (although this is probably the most important part)

MM Events: I guess that any “business process” can be created as an event and therefore be reusable? So instead of having code behind a menu option or command button that contains the code for a process or calls some .PRG, the event would contain the processing logic and the business object would handle the validation of the data?

Then I could create the forms by dropping business objects and events on the form? Do I have these concepts correct?

I'm sure that there is a lot more to it than that, but these seem like the most important parts to me!

Thanks for any insight,
Ed Lennon