I have a problem with <load-on-startup> on my SunOS machine.. in the init() of my HttpServlet i have DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); File temp = new File(xmlFile); Document doc = docBuilder.parse(temp); In my web.xml i have <load-on-startup> 0 </load-on-startup> so that the servlet will be placed into service when orion starts.. With w2k it works fine but with the unix machine (SunOS 5.7) i have a java.io.IOException: Stream closed. when the docBuilder try to parse the temp file.... The same code is rexecuted whe the first user access the website & it works without errors.. Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks Marco -- Ing. Marco Isella, Software Engineer TINET SA, Via Violino 1, CH-6928 Manno-Lugano tel. +41 91 612 22 22, fax. +41 91 612 22 23 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tinet.com