Steve Dobson [http://community.jboss.org/people/dobbo314] created the discussion "Re: EJB Persistence with JBoss 6 v2" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/591648#591648 -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Wolf-Dieter Fink.  That has fixed the problem.  I hadn't thought that although Emacs saw the XML as valid the DTD might have an order to the tags.  I also had a problem with the MySQLInnoDialect not working because of a typo and I should have been using "MySQL5InnoDBDialect". Just for anyone coming a long afterwards there is also two problems with the EJB file: 1). The setUUID(String newUUID) should, of course, be called "setIdentity(String new UUID)" or the parsing of the EJB will fail because hybernate will fail as it can't find a setter for the key. 2). The getUUID() method needs to be marked as "@Transient" so that hybernate doesn't try to map it to a database object. But with these three little change my test EJB gets deployed and the table created in the database.  I'm now a happy bunny. Many thanks -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/591648#591648] Start a new discussion in Beginner's Corner at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]