I have determined the following: 1) JBDS 2.0.0.CR2 is bundled with Tools 3.0.0.CR2 2) the below link does not cover the JPA version (only Hibernate). Documentation is thus incomplete. http://docs.jboss.org/tools/3.0.0.CR2/en/hibernatetools/html/plugins.html... Please specify how to setup a hibernate config (or JPA config?) and run HQL/JPAQL queries. This is taking way too long as is the problem I'm having with Seam components view (separate thread). After upgrading these problems are yet to be resolved... View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4216702#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...