checkout my mail from earlier today regarding datasource aliases. that makes things a little easier (i.e. only one change in the deployment of the app instead of several in all the entity beans and other resource-ref mappings). regards, robert At 08:07 31.10.00 , you wrote: >I've put together a how-to on running the same J2EE application, but with >each instance using a different data source, using Orion. It would be nice >if there was a simpler way to do this (particularly in associating data >sources with applications, which causes the bulk of the work). > >If the orionsupport.com folks are listening, you have my permission to add >this to your site (just be sure to give credit where due). > >Kurt in Atlanta > (-) 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