Alright, i'm dopne whining now.

[John McDonald]

ejb gurus,   I have a more specific exception someone may be able to assist with. I am running the HelloBean example from Chapter 4 of Master EJB by Ed Roman. This book is excellent but give no indication as to how to set up the WebLogic app server, even though it's the one they use throughout the book. I'm get the following exception when I attempt to run the client.   C:\JBuilder3\java\bin\javaw.exe -classpath "D:\WebLogic\myserver\clientclasses;C:\JBuilder3\lib\dx3.0.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\dx3.0-res.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\jbcl3.0.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\jbcl3.0-res.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\jgl3.1.0.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\dbswing3.0.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\dbswing3.0-res.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\pop3.jar;C:\JBuilder3\dependency\~pop3;C:\JBuilder3\lib\activation.jar;C:\JBuilder3\dependency\~Activation;C:\JBuilder3\lib\j2ee.jar;C:\JBuilder3\dependency\~j2ee;C:\JBuilder3\lib\weblogicaux.jar;C:\JBuilder3\lib\weblogicbeans.jar;C:\JBuilder3\dependency\~WebAux;C:\JBuilder3\java\lib\jdkdep.jar;C:\JBuilder3\java\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\JBuilder3\java\lib\dt.jar;C:\JBuilder3\java\jre\lib\i18n.jar;C:\JBuilder3\java\lib\tools.jar" -Djava.naming.factory.initial=D:\WebLogic\classes\weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory -Djava.naming.provider.url=t3://localhost:7001 bean.HelloClient AppAccelerator(tm) 1.2.010 for Java (JDK 1.2), x86 version. Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Inprise Corporation. All Rights Reserved. javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot instantiate class: D:\WebLogic\classes\weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory. Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: D:\WebLogic\classes\weblogic/jndi/WLInitialContextFactory at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:199) at com.sun.naming.internal.VersionHelper12.loadClass(VersionHelper12.java:49) at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:660) at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:250) at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:226) at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:202) at bean.HelloClient.main(HelloClient.java:26)   I am passing the following parameters to the jvm when I execute from JBuilder3. -Djava.naming.factory.initial=D:\WebLogic\classes\weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory -Djava.naming.provider.url=t3://localhost:7001   Anyone have any ideas...please????     -jdm- web app guru(or at least I thought) ClientScience.com, Inc. p 925.373.8700 f  413.793.6603 e [EMAIL PROTECTED]