>>>Ed --
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>>>>(Hint to Hentzenwerke - when do the salesmen's commissions kick in? < g >)
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>>>Maybe when they submit their dissertation for publication???
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>>If Whil wants to start publishing books on Objectories and Dynamic Object Factories in C++, I can ship him a few hundred pages...
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>Could be a best seller among foundation designers <g>. Do you think we'll all be using them in a couple years in whatever environment we work in?

Absolutely; I'm implementing one now in a very specialized framework that builds custom COM objects to sit as an interface between an EDI system using XML-based messaging and a wide range of shipping system products. It's built around an objectory which uses metadata from the DBC and a pair of interface classes that virtualize the concepts of packages, a shipping destination, and a manifest. Define the data characteristics for your system, process the metadata with the objectory's parser, and out rolls a DCOM component to provide the conversion and monitor manifesting, and a set of predefined classes in VFP for use in forms in an interactive environment to talk with the component.

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> Jay