>1. Should each view also have its own business object?

No, but they could. It just wouldn't be very efficient to have all those "heavy" objects laying around. There is a light weight business object called cdelogical that doesn't have update capability etc. that could be used to contain nonupdateable views. We normally include the lookup views along with the updateable view.

>2. If you're doing a SQL query, should that be wrapped up in an object? (I would be tempted to use SQL pass through here but the queries would just be on the project's database.)

I have only worked with local views so maybe someone else can jump in on this one.

HTH

Dan