Dee, Dax Development.com wrote: > Does anyone have some good resources that may help? I know this > is something simple....but, my brain can't seem to get away from the > "database space". > TIA for any resources you all can provide. I've used JDom as an XML parser to read and write XML files rather than a database. http://www.jdom.org/docs/faq.html Or if that is overkill, I've also used Properties files to load simple data. Properties acts like a hashmap written to disk: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html Hope that helps, Chris Evans chris at unhappyfun.com