All, According to the EJB 1.1 specification I am supposed to be able to retrieve a URL connection for my EJB from the container provided resource manager connection factory. In particular the following XML should be used to let the deployer know that I, as a bean provider, need a URL called test that I can look up in JNDI at java:comp/env/url/test. The deployer should bind this resource to the URL connection factory provided by the container in the target operational environment, in our case, JOnAS. <resource-ref> <description>Test</description> <res-ref-name>url/test</res-ref-name> <res-type>java.net.URL</res-type> <res-auth>container</res-auth> </resource-ref> In essence this should be the same as getting a JDBC connection, though with a different factory method since it is a different resource type (URL versus a JDBC connection). While I see in the JOnAS documentation instructions for binding a bean provider's JDBC resource request to a concrete provider I do not see an example or discussion of doing the same thing for a URL resource. The deployer should be able to bind this resource request to an actual resource connection factory supplied by the container using a mechanism such as a JNDI link reference. The question is what is the URL connection factory for JOnAS? Is there one? I did not see this documented anywhere in the JOnAS documentation though I may have just missed. Can anyone provide pointers or an example for binding a URL resource in JOnAS? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Sean Johnson Venetica ---- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "unsubscribe jonas-users". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".