>I did not express myself well in that previous post -- I do use datalayer objects, which are called by the business layer. In my bullet-point list in my previous post, I was folding all of this under the "business layer" since I was mainly concentrating on presentation versus business layers.

Thanks. I'm just trying to get a feel for what you're doing.

>>I recommend against views as they are a two-tier solution.
>Me, too. But I suppose that a data layer could encapsulate a remote view, right? In other words, send data from the presentation layer-->biz layer, and from there pass to a data layer that creates a remote view and applies updates etc.
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>Again, I've never done this -- I haven't really worked much with remote views, period. But what do you think?
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You could, but I don't recommend it. Remote Views use ODBC which is much more expensive than OLE DB.