>Suggestions of alternatives:
>1) Business tier COM object directly calls the Data Tier COM object to get the result, instead of going thru the second ASP. If on different machine, it's DCOM, so not so great maybe.
>--or--
>2) Business tier COM object calls a Web Service which runs second COM object and returns XML result back to the business tier.

Number 1 will work, that is the way I originally had it set up but doesn't satify my requirement for maximum decoupling between the tiers.

Number 2 sounds good but I'm not up to speed on Web Services yet.

Thanks for you input.