Thanks for the reply petemuir. I sort of expected it to be a Hibernate issue. But I am unclear as to where Seam leaves off and Hibernate takes over, so I figured I'd start here. The "show sql" Hibernate option is on in seam-gen projects by defaut, but I need to look at the SQL a little closer next time. After looking though the SQL, I realized that | @OneToMany(cascade=ALL, mappedBy="id", fetch=EAGER) | public List<Store> getStores() { | return stores; | } | Should have actually been... | @OneToMany(cascade=ALL, mappedBy="district", fetch=EAGER) | public List<Store> getStores() { | return stores; | } | The "mappedBy" attribute should point to the property in the Store object which will contain the mapped District object. Anyway, thanks again for the response. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4019101#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...