I'm looking at the doc for server.xml / web-site.xml and it's a bit terse (for me anyway). :) I'm wanting to understand how to configure a group of applications that all can see each other's classes and access each other beans. This need seems to fit what's being described for the server.xml tag; <global-application> I'd like to have a set of applications that are all global??? As class dependancies go, it would be hard to have just one common (global) app and N dependant apps. The purpose is to break up a large app into separate deployment units for code/feature upgrade granularity. Any more helps? or example xml files to share? Thanks, curt Curt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w) 404-463-0973 (h) 404-294-6686