Steve, I know there has been talk of a remoting API, but I am not sure where it is at. JackRabbit has a RMI implementation that I use as part of my build procedure to keep guvnor models in sync with the object model. You have to export the repository as an RMI object, then connect to it like so ClientRepositoryFactory factory = new ClientRepositoryFactory(); Repository repository = factory.getRepository(rmiURL); Session session = repository.login(new SimpleCredentials(username, password.toCharArray())); rulesRepository = new RulesRepository(session); dave 2009/7/27 Steve Ronderos <steve.ronderos(a)ni.com&gt;