Knut, Light dawns on marble head!
I somehow missed that important piece of knowledge (shutting down the server AND the databases) while using the nserverdemo.NsSample demo as a reference for my implementation. Shutting down the databases before shutting down the server has solved all of my problems. Now I can keep my setup the way it is. No need to move the derby library files to the tomcat\common\lib folder. After reading the Enterprise scenario Eric suggested I may change the setup but for now it remains. FYI: I am now using 10.1.1.1. Thanks, Samer Kanjo
