I'm no Seam expert. In fact, I'm very new to it. But I've been quite a bit of time trying to convert the registration example to use Maven. And I'm pretty sure it uses a database. There are two things to look for: 1) If you downloaded JBoss AS, the registration example is probably using the built-in HSQL in-memory database. You can either reconfigure JBoss to use HSQL as a disk-based database, or point it to some other database. 2) The persistence.xml in the registration example has "create-drop" under the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property. That will drop and the create your database tables every time the app comes up, I think. Another setting, such as "update" might be in order. You'll probably have to look at the Hibernate docs to find the right answer. I hope that helps. -andy View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117345#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...