The authenticator is indeed for security, but the authenticate method just returns true (i.e. you have passed authentication) by default. You've made your class below an @Entity - so it's backed by the database. Set hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto to true in persistence.xml for Hibernate to autonmatically create the schema. Also, to start, its best to use the HSQL defaults suggested by seam-gen as then you don't have to worry about problems connecting to the database. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039563#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...