<!--fonto:Comic Sans Ms--><span style="font-family:Comic Sans Ms"><!--/fonto-->Hi,<br /><br />I've recently started with a new company which uses Progress 4GL ( <a href="http://www.progress.com/index.ssp" target="_blank">http://www.progress.com/index.ssp</a> ) as it's backend data and inhouse end user language. Where i was previously, they used FoxPro for the same purpose. <br /><br />I see little differance between the two on the surface and since i do not have to program in either, i will leave them to their programmers. however, there is ONE differance which is bothering me a great deal. Foxpro could make COM objects (dll's) which would allow me direct access to the objects through the webserver. To the knowledge of our Progress programmer, this is not possible with Progress. <br /><br />What they provide for me is a CGI script that i have to call called "WebSpeed" which i then tell it what .p file to run, and then send it a QueryString type argument (no properties, no methods, just a querystring and "run"). <br /><br />As i am sure you can see, this limits what i can send, and what i can get back, as in order to do anything extreemly complex, i would have to serialize everything into XML and they would have to do the same in return... <br /><br />... and paniced eyes are the answer to that comment when posed.<br /><br />So, finally, here is my question. If anyone has any progress understanding, can Progress create DLL's that can be accessed by both Progress and the webserver for more direct communitation?<br /><br />Thank you.<br />Echo<br />Why yes, I DO program in Comic Sans<br /><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
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