Terry
Sorry , i have been away for a veeeeeeeery long time, due to huge projects that came in all together ( as always ). To answer the question you're going to ask: Yes, it's all exclusively plain-vanilla VFP, with native data and the whole panoplie...
About your question concerning moving Java DOM, i don't know ditch...don't think of me as a XML guru or something, it's just that i had to learn it in order to maintain the zillion Web Services i developed with VFP the last 2 years :-)

Jaime

>Jamie,
>Thanks for helping Carmel an I with this post.
>
>I am moving some Java DOM services to M$'s IXMLDOM. Could you offer any advice on that transition?
>
>
>>Carmel
>>If you use VFP8, just check out the XMLAdapter Class.
>>If you are using previous versions, you should manually scan your xml using XMLDom and enter the data into your tables.
>>Scannig your data manually would look something like the following:

>>ox = CreateObject("MSXml.DOMDocument")
>>ox.Load( YourXmlSource ) && or ox.LoadXML( YourXMLString )
>>myXmlString = ox.DocumentElement
>>** now retrieve some fields **
>>myRevNode = myXmlString.SelectSingleNode( "authentication/revision" )
>>myRevision = myRevNode.Text
>>myResNode = myXmlString.SelectSingleNode( "authentication/reseller_shortcut")
>>MyReseller = myResNode.Text
>>
>>** loop through the customer nodes
>>myCustomers = myXmlString.SelectNodes( "customers" )
>>for each oCostumer in myCustomers
>>   tmpName = oCostumer.SelectSingleNode("customer/name")
>>   ? tmpName.Text
>>endfor
>>** it's a pain, i know, but you can control everything

>>
>>HTH
>>Jaime
>>