I'm trying to set up a debugging environment and I've noticed something weird. I've been using ejbtags.jar, and I discovered that using the tag like so <ejb:useHome id="userManagerHome" type="net.coljac.aok.ejb.UserManagerHome" location="ejb/UserManagerHome" /> Results in a JNDI Exception: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: NamingException: ejb/UserManagerHome not found at com.evermind.ejb.taglib.UseHomeTag.doStartTag(UseHomeTag.java:37) So, I've been using the tag with a fully qualified JNDI path: <ejb:useHome id="userManagerHome" type="net.coljac.aok.ejb.UserManagerHome" location="java:comp/env/ejb/UserManagerHome" /> That works. I scratched my head over why this would be so for a while, but moved on. Now, however, if I run Orion from inside JBuilder, the second (verbose) version results in javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: NamingException: java:comp/env namespace is only available from within a J2EE component at com.evermind.ejb.taglib.UseHomeTag.doStartTag(UseHomeTag.java:37) ... and the first version works. What about my setup could possibly account for this discrepancy? The web.xml seems normal. ... <ejb-ref> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/UserManagerHome</ejb-ref-name> <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type> <home>net.coljac.aok.ejb.UserManagerHome</home> <remote>net.coljac.aok.ejb.UserManager</remote> </ejb-ref> ... I'm not sure what the difference is. I tried running orion outside JBuilder using the JBuilder version of the jdk, with "." as the classpath. JBuilder has orion.jar and ejb.jar first in its classpath. Curious. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. Colin ---------------------------------------- Colin Jacobs Senior Software Engineer Optfor Derivatives, Inc. http://www.opt4.com I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't even pretend to know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? -- Jack Handey