I have been using 4.0.5. odin69 mentioned that he was using that version and you never said you were on a different version so this whole time I assumed you were on 4.0.5. The tutorial I am looking at states that you have to modify the hsqldb-ds.xml file to cause Hypersonic to open a port. When you do that, you should see the [STDOUT] messages that I posted. I verified that these messages also appear on 4.2.1. See http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/getting_started/v5/html/dukesbank.html#d0e946. What tutorial are you using? I am also starting to suspect that you have another application deployed which has a Customer table, hence the problems with deleting the table. The name 'Booking' causes me to suspect the Seam booking application. Try using a clean configuration with no other applications deployed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4108221#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...