David Block wrote: > DbObj is context-specific - for a certain network xml adaptor I am > writing, it is called Session. Okay, I see that... but it appears that the Adaptor layer hasn't quite been fully ripped out of Genquire itself yet. The following files *outside* of the Adaptor layer make calls to ->dbh: txtHandAnnotate (my problem) QueryScreen->getBlastHit (my problem) GQ::Server::Feature GQ::Server::Sequence GQ::Server::Transcript This means that Genquire will not, as it stands, work off of a flat-file since flat files have no dbh. Whatever calls these modules are making will have to be pulled down into the adaptor layer... I am presuming that you will hit the same problem with your xml adaptor as I just did with my GB Flat file adaptor so I'll deal with the first two if you deal with the Server feature problems :-) M -- -------------------------------- "Speed is subsittute fo accurancy." ________________________________ Dr. Mark Wilkinson Bioinformatics Group National Research Council of Canada Plant Biotechnology Institute 110 Gymnasium Place Saskatoon, SK Canada