Hi Chris, I was trying to go with the thick driver, but I'm guessing I didn't have my data-sources.xml file set up correctly. If possible, could you send me the relevant section from yours? Thanks, Alan Davey > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Antognini [mailto:Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 > In your Java app you should get the connection from the pool=20 > (as usual, nothing special here...). >=20 > Then you should use one of these two methods for the proxy=20 > authentication: > - Thin: OracleConnection.openProxySession() > - OCI: OracleOCIConnectionPool.getProxyConnection() >=20 > Notice that the thin implementation is available with 10g only. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l