Hi - Well, I figured out where Orion puts the database for the news-app (c:\orion), and I was able to use the Hypersonic DatabaseManager (Java Application) to do select statements and all that fun stuff on my DB after it was loaded. The thing that was confusing me was the name of the table (COM_EVERMIND_EJB_NEWSITEM), which I found was automatically generated by Orion by using the EJB class name. This News-app EJB could use a descriptive tutorial, so maybe I could post it to the group or give it to Orion after I document this a bit (for my own use) to make Entity Beans easier to understand. Does anyone think it would be useful? Dan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com