> First we're on permanent redevelopment, so anyway recompiling all the > classes is tedious. -- everyone is! :) And recompiling is tedious... but there are tools that'll do it for you... check out a couple links... First, take a look at the websphere documentation: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v35/ae/infocenter/was/0606080301.html Then, run over to the jakarta site and take a look @ ant: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ Also... http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg08664.html Defintely take a close look at using ant in your environment, great tool! > I'm beginning to think that java is not the most flexible language, webwise. -- I think Java is a great language webwise. It certainly isn't as easy as using something like ColdFusion, but then ColdFusion has limits.. There really aren't limits to what you can accomplish using Java. AJ