Hi all, I am trying to deploy the atm application example and getting some errors. Originally I noticed orion complaining about not being able to find javac and to copy the tools.jar file into the orion directory. I have the following line in config\server.xml: <compiler executable="javac" classpath="%CLASSPATH%" /> Originally I tried using jikes which worked fine for jsp's, but had some problems with ejb's, so I configured it to use javac instead, which again worked for jsp's but not for ejb's The only way to cure the error was to actually copy the tools.jar into the orion directory (which I would like to avoid in the future if possible). I believe the line above should work for compiling jsp's as well as ejb's but I am probably wrong. After getting the data-sources.xml file configured properly and getting the application to deploy without errors, I receive the following (endlessly) : Orion/0.9.1g initialized java.lang.NullPointerException at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.mr(JAX) at com.evermind.server.fc.run(JAX) at com.evermind.util.d.run(JAX) java.lang.NullPointerException: at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.mr(JAX) at com.evermind.server.fc.run(JAX) at com.evermind.util.d.run(JAX) at com.evermind.util.c.run(JAX) . . . This is my first attempt at deploying an application, and i followed the instructions on the website (configured server.xml and default-site.xml). I feel like I am close. I have also written a small application that I would like to attempt to deploy but I want to make sure I am actually able to configure the server so that if i fail on this other application, i know the trouble is with my code, not with the server config. One other question, Is there an easy way to create .war and .ear other than the deploytool that comes with the j2ee from sun? Thanks for the help (and keep up the great work orion guys) :) Jeff