stupid forum! It thinks its html...argh. <list table="Options" lazy="true" cascade="all-delete-orphan" name="myProperty" embed-xml="true"> <key column="myEnumFieldname"/> <list-index column="listIndex"/> <element type="MyEnumUserType" column="option"/> </list> That should work better! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979132#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...