Hi there It seems like once a client app has established a jndi-connection with the ejb-container through ormi that it can't change the user,password properties for the lifetime of the VM. I've tried resetting properties, closing/unbinding connections and creating new intances of InitialContext. The requirement was for a daemon to pop XML documents as email, parse it and use the auithentication info in it to connect and do transactions. I've solved it by using the os (Debian) daemon processes - so I can start a new VM instance for every email. But that's not very optimal. I appreciate any help Kind regards Theo