Thanks Craig. I guess that's the reason for which XML was invented; passing data in an explicit manner through tiers. Funny thing is that, if you have auto-links enabled and click on the tier word in this message you'd get to Jim's article published here on the UT. I guess that's the paper you mention.


>One paper is at http://www.jamesbooth.com/n-tier.htm
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>While there are a number of ways you can pass data, XML is probably the easiest. Stick with one cursor per table and use CURSORTOXML and XMLTOCURSOR.
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>>Could anyone here recommend a good book or docs on 3-tier development? I am mostly interested in methodology for passing data from presentation, thru mid-tier, to database for updating. Thanks.