Using the Visibroker 3.2 orb for java, the test2_client program no longer freezes in org.omg.CORBA.Request.invoke() like it was doing before when compiled with the Java IDL ORB shipped with JDK 1.2 B3. The Visibroker orb is certified with JDK 1.1.5, and their idl2java doesn't (yet) work with the current JDK 1.2 Beta. My environment is JDK 1.1.6 on NT 4.0/x86. -R. Sood rsood@panix.com