Paul,

> No, I don't think I am. I created a business object call customer that I dropped into a container. The container holds my form controls and DE/business object. The only button the container has is the Find button. I'm trying to create a standard customer object that has all of it's functionality built-in so I can just drop it onto other forms w/o having to worry about recreating all. I (think) this is the right way to do it.>

As long as you don't place the UI controls inside the business object container then drop it on a form you're in good shape. As you can well imagine, adding UI controls to a business object's container kills reusability because you end up dragging along unneeded UI controls wherever you drop the bizobj. In addition it also kills scalability because it mixes tier 1 and tier 2.

> Finally, a bug I didn't cause ;-)

I take a graceful bow and personal credit for this one <s>.

Regards,