Peter, thank you for your references. At first when I read your comment "In most cases, you'd be completely mad to develop at the JDBC level", I thought to myself, "What is he talking about?!?!" But then, I followed your Sun link and read
http://www.sun.com/forte/ffj/resources/articles/transparent.html , and I have to say, it really opened my eyes!!! Now, I completely understand where you're coming from. And the whole concept of data objects, which used to just seem like a neat but theoretical concept to me, now seems very practical and applicable.
Thank you,

-Miftah
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Miftah Khan
- Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
- Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java� 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
[This message has been edited by Miftah Khan (edited October 02, 2001).]