>Anthony,
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>>>Business and event objects it seems to make perfect sense. Though for things like cSet or cSelect or objects that we create for parameter passing, it may be overkill. But then again, what's the downside?
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>Other than a *minor* performance hit for the Abstract Factory's lookup and the bit of extra effort it takes to add a record to the classes table...you're right...there really isn't a down side...you're simply data driving your class instantiation.
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>Regards,

Another benefit is that it allows you to create your own intermediate layer without having the overhead of another object layer. Although you take a minor penalty hit for going through the abstarct factory, that's nothing compared to the penalty you would take to go through an entire object layer!