Hi, I got no response to this message on the tomcat-user list, so I am trying here. I could find nothing in the archives except the message I refer to below -- I apologize if this issue has been addressed and I just couldn't find the info... I am having problems with jndi.properties being read from my WEB-INF/classes directory. I have seen this problem referenced once on the tomcat-dev mailing list -- someone submitted a patch, but apparently it did not get committed. (I couldn't find a reason why, so I am not sure if that was the real solution to the problem or not). The original message is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg06588.html I have verified that the same behaivor he refers to is going on with my application -- InitialContext is using getResources(), which doesn't return anything becuase AdaptiveClassLoader doesn't implement findResource or findResources. Has anyone else having this problem found a solution/work-around? Is there a Tomcat guru/developer out there who can explain why AdaptiveClassLoader doesn't implement findResources()? Thanks, David