Hi, I am new to hibernate and I wanted to try out this way of java persistence. I downloaded hibernate 3 and the hibernate annotation libraries. I made a little project in which i want to select * from a database. When I realize this in "the old-way" with hibernate mapping files, it workes fine. But when I applay the Version with Java-Annotations, I always get an error message, which says, that my bean is not mapped or something in this way. If I comment out the line with the query, everthing works fine. So the set up seems to be ok. But the query doesn't work. Here is my Annotated class: ---- package hibernate; import javax.persistence.*; import java.io.Serializable; @Entity() @Table (name="testtable") public class ExampleDAO implements Serializable { @Basic @Id public int id; @Basic public String name; public int getId() { return id; } public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; } public String getName() { return name; } public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; } } --- and here is the query-code: AnnotationConfiguration cfg = new AnnotationConfiguration(); cfg.configure( "../../etc/conf/hibernate.cfg.xml" ); SessionFactory sf = cfg.buildSessionFactory(); Session s = sf.openSession(); Transaction tx = s.beginTransaction(); Query q = s.createQuery( "from ExampleDAO" ); << Expection tx.commit(); s.close(); -- I hope i expressed my problem clearly. Thanks, Thomas