I have seen times where I've had to change the way I refer to resource because of different class loaders.
You may want to try a leading "/" to see if that works for you. If it's on the class path, one of these two variants should work.. <sqlMap resource="com/esri/business/user/USER_SqlMap_SS08.xml"/> - or - <sqlMap resource="/com/esri/business/user/USER_SqlMap_SS08.xml"/> Larry
