mcd

I've never tried it, but I've heard cloudscape is excellent, and it's cross-platform to boot! Now that's exciting.
As far as Access, I would stay away from it because it's not portable, although it's an outstanding solution for Windows desktop development.

It's hard to tell, with no code posted. Remember that in EJB 1.1 you have to specify the remote referenced in the deployment descriptor with the "ejb-ref" tag.
mcd

Double-check your nested parenthes - you're trying to return the object parameter casted to VProductPK.
mcd

The ejbPassivate can only be called by the container, AFAIK. The unsetEntityContext should do the trick.
mcd