LOL! Thanks for the chuckle this early in the morning! Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Gibbons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:43 AM Why do all this? Basically you are using an industry standard RPC mechanism to a middle tier (ie the EJB remote stuff with JNDI lookup). You are decoupling the GUI from the data manipulation which theoretically gives you OO code reuse (like hell, but someone believes this stuff). You do gain scalability advantages (kind of, but lets not think too hard about that eh). Jonathan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>