Thanx Wolfgang, I got your point...but... talking about hibernate :It supports standardized Java Persistence and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) object/relational mapping annotations + on top of that It has Hibernate-specific extension annotations for performance optimization and special mappings...right...? So wouldnt it be better to go with EJB + Hibernate...? Regards. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4262570#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...