Geoff,

> Sure you can do such things with Corba, COM and various other
> possibilities, but for batch processing I dont think that such
> complications are really necessary. A simple alternative is just to
> use ib events and possibly some form of table to store "commands".
> This way all your communications issues are handled for you.

Thank you very much for your help! This was just the clever trick I
was looking for. With that I can even send Objects over the wire: I
have just to stream the properties to a blob, send it to database and
let it read by the batch processing application.

So maybe it was not that OT as I thought before....

Thank you very much
Daniel