Hi, I'm using MS SQL Server to store documents on a webapp we're doing, and am having strange trouble - everything works just fine until I shut down and restart jBOSS, then each document is prepended with a predictable, but destructive, string of bytes. Basically it's like this: I upload a file (using Struts upload classes), then store it in a CMP entity bean as a byte[] field. When I query to get it back prior to shutting down jBOSS, everything works like a charm - the file is returned, whatever mime type was set invokes the right application, everything is marvelous. If I shut down jBOSS and restart, though (prompting a read of the database), I get a garbage string of bytes at the beginning of the document. That garbage string contains these characters, among others: "java.rmi.MarshalledObject", and "objBytes". I can't imagine it's a coincidence. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm using JTurbo for JDBC, both jBOSS and MS SQL Server are running on Windows 2000, I'm using Tomcat (on a separate stack) for a servlet engine (although I strongly doubt that's related). Any help is greatly appreciated! Chris _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user