It seems the entity manager is not getting inject into the right place. I continue to get this error: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException | at org.jboss.seam.core.ManagedPersistenceContext.getEntityManager(ManagedPersistenceContext.java:96) | Here are my updated persistence.xml, components.xml and jboss-beans.xml files: persistence.xml <persistence> | <persistence-unit name="omegaFactory"> | <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider> | <jta-data-source>java:/omegaDatasource</jta-data-source> | <properties> | <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect"/> | <property name="hibernate.transaction.flush_before_completion" value="true"/> | <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/> | <property name="jboss.entity.manager.factory.jndi.name" value="java:/omegaEntityDatasource"/> | <property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider"/> | <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup"/> | </properties> | </persistence-unit> | </persistence> | components.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components" | xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation= | "http://jboss.com/products/seam/core | http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-1.1.xsd | http://jboss.com/products/seam/components | http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-1.1.xsd"> | | <core:init jndi-pattern="#{ejbName}/local" debug="true"/> | | <core:manager conversation-timeout="120000"/> | | <core:managed-persistence-context name="entityManager" | persistence-unit-jndi-name="java:/omegaEntityDatasource" | auto-create="true"/> | | | <core:ejb installed="true"/> | | </components> jboss-beans.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | | <deployment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="urn:jboss:bean-deployer bean-deployer_1_0.xsd" | xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | | <bean name="omegaDatasourceBootstrap" class="org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalTxDataSource"> | <property name="driverClass">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property> | <property name="connectionURL">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/omega</property> | <property name="userName"><value class="java.lang.String">username</value></property> | <property name="password"><value class="java.lang.String">password</value></property> | <property name="jndiName">java:/omegaDatasource</property> | <property name="minSize">0</property> | <property name="maxSize">10</property> | <property name="blockingTimeout">1000</property> | <property name="idleTimeout">100000</property> | <property name="transactionManager"><inject bean="TransactionManager"/></property> | <property name="cachedConnectionManager"><inject bean="CachedConnectionManager"/></property> | <property name="initialContextProperties"><inject bean="InitialContextProperties"/></property> | </bean> | | <bean name="omegaDatasource" class="java.lang.Object"> | <constructor factoryMethod="getDatasource"> | <factory bean="omegaDatasourceBootstrap"/> | </constructor> | </bean> | </deployment> | Surely some permutation should work. :-) -Michael View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027375#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...