1. From a client app running in a separate VM, can I use JNDI to request a UserTransaction and use it? 2. From a client app running in a separate VM, can I use JNDI to request a DataSource and use it? I would really appreciate it if someone could help answering the above questions. Thanks. Anh _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com