[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Passing object (input-output), with a dataset or TT, between client- and appserver-sess

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While I understand that it would be easy if one could send an object back and forth, my instinct is to think that an object is too inherent to the operating context for it to make sense to send it to a different operating context. It is one thing to send data, but an object is both data and operations. One of the ways to look at this is to flip the original context, i.e., to just focus on the part about the server sending out an object. One can see initially how this might be desirable with a 4GL client, but what if one then replaces that 4GL client with a web page or a smart device? Sending the same data could easily make sense regardless of the client type, but sending the operations as well makes no sense.

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