For some reason the VM in JBuilder 3.5 looks in the class output directory for META-INF/application-client.xml. Two questions about this: 1. Is there a way to specify where this will be loaded from? Since all of our applications output to the same Classes directory, there's only one application-client.xml. It isn't working because not all of the EJB apps are serving the same EJBs. When the InitialContext() is created it's failing for EJB references to other apps. 2. If there isn't a way to tell the context factory in the client where to load this from, is there a way to have one context look at multiple apps? Then at least the unused references wouldn't throw NamingExceptions. /* Eric Hodges, Chief Technology Officer Mongoose Technology, Inc. "We chase cobras so you don't have to." */