Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it did not solve the issue: org.hibernate.MappingException: Unable to find column with logical name: catalogue in org.hibernate.mapping.Table(Catalogue) and its related supertables and secondary tables a) The mappedBy attribute must reference the logical name of the foreign property (the name of the attribute / getter) b) The name attribute of the JoinColumn appears to be the physical column name for the foreign key c) It only works if these two values are the same, but not if that value is anything other than the name of the getter/setter property. Which brings us back to square 1! How do we specify a different physical name for the foreign key?! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080404#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...