these are all Seam 2.0.0.GA projects, not sure if I stated that before or not. I found the following thread that seemed useful, but when I copied my persistence.xml file into src/META-INF in the project root and rebuilt config with 'SHIMS' as the persistence unit entry, same exception occurs (could not load JPA configuration, persistence unit not found: 'SHIMS'). [url] http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4103463#... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4142203#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...