the thinking behind this was the following: identity and jpdl are two separate independent sub projects. it is the suite (previously called the starters-kit) that will combine the two components. therefor i thought it would be best to remove the dependency that was introduced by adding the identity mappings to the default mappings as they are specified in the jpdl/jar project. the mappings should be there in comments in the default hibernate configuration file. so that you can create an ant script with some replace tasks that uncomments the identity mappings. does this make sense ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960955#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...