Paul, thanks for the great info. Like you I have reconfigured jackrabbit to use a (non-derby) database and here are some comments: 1) I find the speed is about 20X slower this way versus using derby (almost unacceptably slow.. maybe because I use JNDIDatabaseFileSystem?) 2) if you prefer to use a WebLogic connection pooled connection it goes like this: <PersistenceManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.db.JNDIDatabasePersistenceManager"> <param name="dataSourceLocation" value="java:comp/env/jdbc/MyJndiPoolName"/> <param name="schema" value="mysql"/> <param name="schemaObjectPrefix" value="${wsp.name}_"/> <param name="externalBLOBs" value="false" /> </PersistenceManager> 3) you can also use the database instead of local filesystem storage: <FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.db.JNDIDatabaseFileSystem"> <param name="dataSourceLocation" value="java:comp/env/jdbc/MyJndiPoolName"/> <param name="schema" value="mssql"/> <param name="schemaObjectPrefix" value="${wsp.name}"/> </FileSystem> Paul Browne wrote: