Thanks
Kev

>It's symantecs. Some people say data objects are part of the data tier, others say data objects are part of the middle tier. In the end, I don't think it matters how you call it, just so data access components are separated from everything else.
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>>So, if I was writing a 3-tier app, my business object would obviously reside in the middle-tier, but does that mean that the data-object does too? Or is that part of the data-layer?
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>>Thanks
>>Kev