Hiya, First, I'd like to add my gratitude to the heap. Thanks orion folks for a great product. :) If all goes well, we might actually buy a license or two. :) And now the question... We're trying to do the following: xml/xsl front-end servlet helperhandlers sessionbean entitybean db I'm basically having the same problem as this message: http://www.mail-archive.com/orion-interest@orionserver.com/msg00320.html to which I could find no response. The trouble is that my helperhandler can connect to either the sessionbean or the entitybean, but after connecting to the session bean, the session bean can't find the entity bean. The exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException. Somehow it seems like just my lack of understanding of JNDI. Something like these two beans are ending up in different contexts? How can I ensure they are both bound to the same one? I can send the .xml files if that would help... Thanks so much! ken.