Could you try deleting the hibernate.properties and maintain just the hibernate.cfg.xml? Hibernate uses the hibernate.cfg.xml by overriding the hibernate.properties when both the files are present. Just want to make sure that the cfg.xml is being used and not the properties file. I guess that the hibernate.properties is being used because otherwise i would have expected some errors being thrown up since your cfg.xml does not contain any dialect/driver/connection url related information. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050369#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...