>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.

Kevin, James

Thanks.
I'm always looking for best practices and getting opinions from outside my group of developers helps build confidence.

Also, I've not upgraded to 6.1.2 yet, but looking through the What's New stuff is getting me excited. Great work.

Regards,
Anthony