>One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to implement this as >a managed connection pool within OC4J. It seems that I need to manage >the connection pool within my java application itself. But as I'm >pretty new to web applications, I'm probably missing something basic. Alan In your Java app you should get the connection from the pool (as usual, = nothing special here...). Then you should use one of these two methods for the proxy = authentication: - Thin: OracleConnection.openProxySession() - OCI: OracleOCIConnectionPool.getProxyConnection() Notice that the thin implementation is available with 10g only. HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l