>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <gbenson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Gary> I wonder if this is what was not happening in gcj. The patch I wrote Gary> basically added the contents of java.endorsed.dirs to one of JOnAS's Gary> many classloaders. We implemented endorsed dirs specifically for jonas -- as I recall this was needed not only for jacorb but also for loading xerces/xalan. My recollection is that with the FC5 gcc (aka 4.1) we didn't need any special jonas hacks in this area... if I'm wrong, I'd like to know so we can fix it :-) Tom