You guys do know that this has *zero* functional impact on your app - just disable schema validation if you bump into problems. [rant on] And yes it should be fixed, but i'm just "tired" of hearing people say "seam/hibernate does not work because schema validation fails" and that "my project cannot go on before this bug is fixed"... [rant off] View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4033592#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...