OK, I know nothing about what I am about to speak of but I hope someone can help. We have an application built in Powerbuilder and another component built using .Net and a Java JBOSS midtier. Top Link also fits in here somewhere. The midtier uses XA authentication, whatever that is, to somehow authenticate the users coming in via the midtier. All I know is I install the initxa.sql file in ORACLE_HOME/javavm/install. The fear is that implementing OID is going to break all this. Can anyone enlighten me. I can't see any reason the Powerbuiler app won't be able to use OID to authenticate to the database but I can see how the XA stuff might break. Anybody done any work like this? Thanks, Ethan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------