Hi, I've just had an odd problem I thought I'd see if anyone else had come accross: Running tomcat 3.2.2, apache 1.3.19 on RH linux 7.1, I got a ClassCastException for a bean (called DbUtilities) I use in a JSP page. The code from the compiled servlet of the jsp is as follows: DbUtilities db = null; boolean _jspx_specialdb = false; synchronized(application) { db = (DbUtilities) <---------------- this line caused the ClassCastException pageContext.getAttribute("db",pageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE); Its odd because both the bean and JSP had been working fine for a week or so & I hadn't modified either. I restarted tomcat and apache and everything was fine again - just a little concernred, I don't want this happenning when the site goes live! Has anyone else seen anything like this? cheers, Paul