It looks like not all those jars are there in the hibernate lib folder... after looking it over that tutorial looks like it is for hibernate 2, so I wonder if that is why they arent in the directory. I am still having issues with the hibernate.cfg.xml. It is now not being recognized in the meta-inf folder nor in the root directory. This has really left me stumped. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4158770#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...