The process gets deployed, probably... Set | <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</property> | to | <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</property> | as 'create-drop' drops the built schema again when closing the connection to the DB. See the Hibernate docs for this. I'll create a JIRA Entry for the buggy, missleading Userguide due to the ant task, as well. I had the same problem... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078036#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...