Adam,

<< Oh now that is exciting. I agree however that it is nice to keep EDB as a "clean" SQL platform (even if SQL is not a great language). When I am selling my solutions, it is really useful that DB Admin's I have to work with can be immediately bought off with "it is fully SQL compliant". For a product like EDB that is really helpful in getting through the door. >>

Yeah, that's part of what is stopping me from doing so.  Selling Object Pascal to Delphi developers is easy, but not so easy for other target customers.

<< I have written DLLs (about 4 in 10 years or so!) and agree with Roy that making this process more transparent could be useful. Perhaps you could extend the MODULE paradigm in EDB by having a tool to write pas-based modules that could interact directly with EDB? >>

That would probably be the best end result.  I'll have to see how EWB 2.07 shakes out - it will be the first "in the wild" implementation of the Object Pascal runtime outside of the EWB IDE.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com