Hello robik123 and others, I am getting exactly same exception about userBean.userSelectItems from JSF. In you last post you said you had to include more jars, could you please be more specific and let me know which jars? I am using hsql and tomcat 5.5.17. I used the dbvisualizer tool to verify that the users exist in my 'localdb'. My hibernate.cfg.xml looks like this - org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver jdbc:hsqldb://localhost:1701 sa Please let me know what I need to do here. Thank you, Meghana View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3990290#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...