To all having similar problems with connection pooling (cocoon 1.8.x) Error found handling the request. java.lang.RuntimeException: Error opening pooled connection: <name of pool> or java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not open pooled connection: <name of pool> here is the way we "solved" it: We added the properties for pool and adaptors to in $COCOON_HOME\conf\cocoon.properties only and had the above mentioned exceptions. Shame on us! We forgot to copy this file to $TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\cocoon\WEB-INF. After doing this and restarting Tomcat everything works as it should... Especially to Klaas-Pieter: it is simple, isnīt it? Annett --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>