I am 100% sure I'm using Ganymede (info from Help->About Eclipse: Eclipse Platform, Version: 3.4.1, Build id: M20080911-1700). I tried creating a new Seam Web Project using the Configuration settings of "Dynamic Web Project with Seam 2.0". This does not include JPA. I still get a NullPointerException. There is no verbose exception information on the linux shell console from which I started eclipse, however. I just tried again to create a Seam 2.0 project with JPA support and all I got was the NullPointerException (no verbose exception output this time.) What other info can I give you to help solve this? I am doing something really basic and running into this error. With WebTools 3.0 alpha 1 and this exact version of eclipse I did not run into this error. (Mind you, I'm not mixing alpha1 install with beta1 install, I started from a fresh eclipse). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4188226#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...