anonymous wrote : Try declaring ArticleConsumeSchemaTemplate as a mappedSuperclass (so long as you don't need the template class persisted) | That seems to be the solution. I've annotated the class as MappedSuperclass AND Entity and it went through the Initializing. So I will do now some tests if it still does behave as before. Thanks! Kai View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3981757#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...