From what I understand from the development team (the ones who came to me with the question), there is a lot of code to change and so it's impractical to make the change at this point. ---- If they were indeed real programmers building a real application, they would have abstracted these methods into their own classes, rendering such system wide changes relatively simple. Feelin' spunky, Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------