"christian.bauer(a)jboss.com" wrote : Never! What you do is remove this configuration option completely. Then you generate a DDL file with SQL statements using the Hibernate Tools tasks for Ant. This file is handed over to a professional DBA to clean and deploy on the staging and production databases. | We're using a seam-gen'd project that uses hibernate-all.jar. Same rules apply? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075267#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...