ok with some more digging around it seems the problems has been documented and solved in http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=86472 it seems i was using the old entitymanager tag in persistence.xml. When i used the follow all is good again. | <persistence> | | <persistence-unit name="as"> | | <jta-data-source>java:/AssetDS</jta-data-source> | <properties> | <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/> | <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" /> | </properties> | | </persistence-unit> | | </persistence> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970000#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...