> All this works great, except that when I connect from outside of tomcat, I
> always get a read-only connection. 

Do you mean read-only in the sense of
http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/dev/devguide/cdevdeploy11201.html#cdevdeploy11201

Or do you mean read-only in the sense of
http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/dev/devguide/rdevcsecure190.html

That is, can you determine whether the connection is read-only because
the database is on read-only media, or because the security settings
are read-only?

thanks,

bryan