"vcordaro12" wrote : 1), yes entities are gnerated from a datasource, however I want to be able to execute generate-entities from my pom. So that in my nightly build process I can generate my entities. Not sure why you want your db schema lead your design. But you can make your entities generate and fill your db schema on every build :) Would that do what you want? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109453#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...