Jay OS - Windows JVM - IBM JDK 5 Here is my persistence.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="bookingDatabase" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"> org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence <jta-data-source>DefaultDatasource</jta-data-source> <!-- From WAS 6.1.0.9, the embedded DB is switched to the same Derby DB in Glassfish --> </persistence-unit> I am just really frustrated with Websphere, its never easy to get it working View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4128121#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...