Perhaps related. We are testing a Seam 2.0.1.GA app in production on 4.2.EAP now on jboss-5.0.0.CR1 and it is so close. Seam components relying on the entityManager fail to load, but the entityManager then loads thereafter. 16:33:31,685 INFO [Component] Component: viewBalanceDto, scope: CONVERSATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: com.alliancedata.ecis.dto.paymentarrangement.ViewBalanceDto 16:33:31,732 INFO [Component] Component: workZoneBean, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: com.alliancedata.ecis.reference.WorkZoneBean 16:33:31,732 INFO [Contexts] starting up: persistenceBean 16:33:31,779 INFO [Contexts] starting up: adsTime 16:33:31,779 INFO [Contexts] starting up: org.jboss.seam.bpm.jbpm 16:33:31,826 INFO [StaleObjectLogConfigurer] stale object exceptions will be hidden from logging 16:33:33,732 INFO [Contexts] starting up: buildInfo 16:33:33,764 INFO [BuildInfo] creating BuildInfo 16:33:33,951 INFO [Version] Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0.CR1 16:33:33,967 INFO [Environment] Hibernate 3.3.0.CR1 16:33:33,982 INFO [Environment] hibernate.properties not found 16:33:33,998 INFO [Environment] Bytecode provider name : javassist 16:33:33,998 INFO [Environment] using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling 16:33:34,154 INFO [Version] Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.1.0.CR1 16:33:34,154 INFO [Version] Hibernate EntityManager 3.4.0.CR1 16:33:34,310 ERROR [BuildInfo] javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named entityManagerFactory 16:33:34,326 ERROR [BuildInfo] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: EntityManagerFactory not found in JNDI : java:/EntityManagerFactories/servicesDatasource 16:33:34,326 INFO [Contexts] starting up: contactLetterService 16:33:34,342 ERROR [[/nextgen]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: EntityManagerFactory not found in JNDI : java:/EntityManagerFactories/servicesDatasource at org.jboss.seam.persistence.ManagedPersistenceContext.getEntityManagerFactoryFromJndiOrValueBinding(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:247) ... but then later we see the persistence unit load: 16:33:35,576 INFO [TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/jbossws, vfsUrl=jbossws.sar/jbossws-management.war 16:33:35,686 INFO [ConnectionFactoryBindingService] Bound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=ServicesDS' to JNDI name 'java:ServicesDS' 16:33:35,686 INFO [ConnectionFactoryBindingService] Bound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=DefaultDS' to JNDI name 'java:DefaultDS' 16:33:36,186 WARN [QuartzTimerServiceFactory] sql failed: CREATE TABLE QRTZ_JOB_DETAILS(JOB_NAME VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL, JOB_GROUP VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL, DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(120) NULL, JOB_CLASS_NAME VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, IS_DURABLE VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL, IS_VOLATILE VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL, IS_STATEFUL VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL, REQUESTS_RECOVERY VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL, JOB_DATA BINARY NULL, PRIMARY KEY (JOB_NAME,JOB_GROUP)) 16:33:36,233 INFO [SimpleThreadPool] Job execution threads will use class loader of thread: main 16:33:36,233 INFO [QuartzScheduler] Quartz Scheduler v.1.5.2 created. 16:33:36,233 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Using db table-based data access locking (synchronization). 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Removed 0 Volatile Trigger(s). 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Removed 0 Volatile Job(s). 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] JobStoreCMT initialized. 16:33:36,248 INFO [StdSchedulerFactory] Quartz scheduler 'JBossEJB3QuartzScheduler' initialized from an externally provided properties instance. 16:33:36,248 INFO [StdSchedulerFactory] Quartz scheduler version: 1.5.2 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Freed 0 triggers from 'acquired' / 'blocked' state. 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Recovering 0 jobs that were in-progress at the time of the last shut-down. 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Recovery complete. 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Removed 0 'complete' triggers. 16:33:36,248 INFO [JobStoreCMT] Removed 0 stale fired job entries. 16:33:36,264 INFO [QuartzScheduler] Scheduler JBossEJB3QuartzScheduler_$_NON_CLUSTERED started. 16:33:36,483 INFO [ServerPeer] JBoss Messaging 1.4.1.CR1 server [0] started 16:33:36,608 INFO [QueueService] Queue[/queue/ExpiryQueue] started, fullSize=200000, pageSize=2000, downCacheSize=2000 16:33:36,733 INFO [ConnectionFactory] Connector bisocket://127.0.0.1:4457 has leasing enabled, lease period 10000 milliseconds 16:33:36,733 INFO [ConnectionFactory] org.jboss.jms.server.connectionfactory.ConnectionFactory@1ef4049 started 16:33:36,748 INFO [ConnectionFactory] Connector bisocket://127.0.0.1:4457 has leasing enabled, lease period 10000 milliseconds 16:33:36,748 INFO [ConnectionFactory] org.jboss.jms.server.connectionfactory.ConnectionFactory@48b622 started 16:33:36,748 WARN [ConnectionFactoryJNDIMapper] supportsFailover attribute is true on connection factory: jboss.messaging.connectionfactory:service=ClusteredConnectionFactory but post office is non clustered. So connection factory will *not* support failover 16:33:36,748 WARN [ConnectionFactoryJNDIMapper] supportsLoadBalancing attribute is true on connection factory: jboss.messaging.connectionfactory:service=ClusteredConnectionFactory but post office is non clustered. So connection factory will *not* support load balancing 16:33:36,764 INFO [ConnectionFactory] Connector bisocket://127.0.0.1:4457 has leasing enabled, lease period 10000 milliseconds 16:33:36,764 INFO [ConnectionFactory] org.jboss.jms.server.connectionfactory.ConnectionFactory@d60482 started 16:33:36,764 INFO [QueueService] Queue[/queue/DLQ] started, fullSize=200000, pageSize=2000, downCacheSize=2000 16:33:36,779 INFO [ConnectionFactoryBindingService] Bound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=ConnectionFactoryBinding,name=JmsXA' to JNDI name 'java:JmsXA' 16:33:37,451 INFO [PersistenceUnitDeployment] Starting persistence unit persistence.units:ear=nextgen.ear,unitName=entityManager 16:33:38,123 WARN [Ejb3Configuration] Persistence provider caller does not implement the EJB3 spec correctly. PersistenceUnitInfo.getNewTempClassLoader() is null. 16:33:38,155 INFO [AnnotationConfiguration] Mapping package hq2d6049x1.bvws 16:33:38,436 INFO [STDOUT] CUSTOM ECISEmptyNullInterceptor OF com.alliancedata.ecis.hibernate.ECISEmptyNullInterceptor 16:33:38,483 WARN [EJB3OverridenAnnotationReader] Property com.alliancedata.ecis.persistence.UtilityContactInterface.SequenceId not found in class but described in <mapping-file/> (possible typo error) 16:33:38,483 WARN [EJB3OverridenAnnotationReader] Property com.alliancedata.ecis.persistence.CashInterface.SequenceId not found in class but described in <mapping-file/> (possible typo error) 16:33:38,561 INFO [AnnotationBinder] Binding entity from annotated class: com.alliancedata.ecis.persistence.DegreeDay 16:33:38,592 INFO [EntityBinder] Bind entity com.alliancedata.ecis.persistence.DegreeDay on table UDGD View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4176008#... 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