What is the setting for the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property in your persistence.xml file? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4181282#4181282 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4181282