Hi! I made an experiment with a setup where ejb components are deployed in another server than web components. Orion provides three types of JNDI context factories: com.evermind.server.rmi/RMIInitialContextFactory com.evermind.server.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory com.evermind.server.ApplicationInitialContextFactory ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory is meant for Java application clients but what is the difference between the other two, RMIInitialContextFactory and ApplicationInitialContextFactory? My experiment worked just fine no matter which one I used when separating web tier from ejb tier. -- Joni [EMAIL PROTECTED]