I'm not sure what I was doing previously that caused errors when I removed auto, but removing hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto from persistence.xml has now cleared this problem. I've got a clean deployment and I've even managed to get my initial JAX-WS based web service to show up in http://localhost:8080/jbossws/services. I have more questions, but they are now related to client WS issues migrating from java2wsdl/wsdl2java generated classes to wsconsume generated classes. I'll start a different thread (after searching for similar posts first, of course) for those questions. Thanks for you help jaikiran. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116796#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...