Are your Data Access Layers compatible with Web Services?

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There are 3 ways to implement this:

1. Lots of if statements (really messy - most people try this first)
2. Interfaces (implements statement in VB)
3. Factory pattern (✅ best - most flexible and extensible approach)

All database applications should be web services ready as the future direction is to use web services only, because even locally a web service connection is not much slower than direct connection. The performance difference shouldn't be substantial enough to require a double code base.