It is a good point...although i can assure you the code i'm executing has the props passed in. Basically i've tried it every way with and without properties being passed in. Also with many variation on the actual properties.
Regarding the jdk version...both are 1.6 jdks. The minor version may be different ( I need to check). But i'm not seeing anything in the glassfish logs indicating a connection was attempted. Is this the type of error you would expect on a jdk mismatch? Would it be a different error if it was a connect problem?
Are the warnings about the initializer class important? Again I believe they actually are in my classpath.
warning: ORB.init: initializer class com.sun.enterprise.iiop.J2EEInitializer not found
warning: ORB.init: initializer class com.sun.enterprise.iiop.FailoverIORInterceptor not found
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