Hi guys, I am using Tomcat as a servlet container with Apache SSL as the webserver. I have my servlets in the TOMCAT_HOME\webapps path and one of these servlets need these DLL's and also need to read this text file. Now my question is where does tomcat actually look for these files in. What if I want it to look into a specific path. I had tough time with this and finally I just copied these DLLs everywhere under tomcat (and I guess it worked when I put them under bin) but for soem reason thats not the case with the text file which I want it to read. It just keeps saying in the console window for tomcat that it couldn't find the specified text file. Please help me with this. I appreciate all ur guys help. Thanks in advance. bye, Surya _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp