I removed dcom98 and ran the app again. Only once I got the following error after the ComFailException one ... java.lang.NullPointerException at java/io/File.<init> at com/hp/ifc/util/AppLog.setLogFile ... Don't know if this will help. As for giving the application, I don't know about that (yet). Besides, the error occurs after I enter my username/password and the server to login to. Would it be possible to debug/trace the program without the login details? BTW, I don't reach the point of failure if I give incorrect login details.