Its now working. I made the following change to the backing bean: | was | SessionFactory mdpsf = cfg.buildSessionFactory(); | now | SessionFactory mdpsf = cfg.configure().buildSessionFactory(); | It appears the configuration parameter weren't being read in the first example of creating a SessionFactory. By adding the method configure() the mapping was found. The URL you provided "http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html" was very helpful. Again, thanks for all the help! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050539#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...