> I was under the impression that the Forms server process > (frmweb) running on the app server connected to the database > through a regular OCI/Oracle Net connection Most JDBC thin client connections show 'JDBC Thin Client' under v$session.program. (But see Metalink notes 147413.1 and 371818.1.) Since the Forms server connections show 'frmweb@[server name] (TNS V1-V3)', they're likely using JDBC OCI driver. I think they do use Java because its listener URL is /forms/lservlet and servlet is a Java concept, the frmweb process has defined CLASSPATH environment variable, its parent is a java process, and its open files include some under $OH/jdk/jre/lib/... If anybody has Forms server connections to an 11g database, v$session_connect_info can tell us. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l