Dan, I have not gotten a response for this message. For now, we are running our JSP and EJB application on the same machine. I we'll be looking at other application servers for our deployment since it appears that Orion cannot talk to another Orion via a new InitialContext(). If you find the solution, please tell me. There is some Orion (non J2EE) method for connecting two servers (using RMI.XML), but we never gotten this to work correctly. Also, it does not appear to be J2EE compliant, so we do not want to use it. -AP_ -----Original Message----- From: Dan Sieroka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: What does "domain was null" message mean in the following exception??? I am getting the same message in the same circumstances. Have you resolved this? If you could you please let me know how? Thanks, Dan