Hi Allan, >> into tomcats lib directory, but the error persisted >> (even after restarting tomcat). Have you put the client jar fiels in WEB-INF/lib like David said ? >> Error javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Cannot >> instantiate class: >> org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory [Root >> exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: >> org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory] It looks like the needed classes were not found. so long Ingo Bruell --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ICQ# 40377720> Oldenburg PGP-Fingerprint: CB01 AE12 B359 87C4 BF1C 953C 8FE7 C648 169E E5FC Germany PGP-Public-Key available at pgpkeys.mit.edu _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user