Hi, are you planning support for the above-mentioned feature? I think it's essential for app servers/middleware in commercial environments to provide a solution for communicating through a firewall, the easiest of which is http(s) tunneling. it's not the best practice in terms of performance but in many deployment scenarios performance is sufficient and it's quite robust. so, if you're making a list of things the market demands for making orion an even better deal, count my vote for http(s) tunneling. bye, robert -- (-) Robert Krüger (-) SIGNAL 7 Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH (-) Brüder-Knauß-Str. 79 - 64285 Darmstadt, (-) Tel: 06151 665401, Fax: 06151 665373 (-) [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.signal7.de