>My main goal is to avoid the performance hit of walking up the containership heirarchy. My main concern is when the application is run in Web-Connect. I want the application to running quickly.
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If it's Web Connection, I assume you're creating the container on each hit. Correct? If so, you could just make the reference to the top-level container a private variable (say, poTopContainer) when you instantiate it. Just a thought.

-- Randy