Thanks for your help norman! here is the output that you mentioned. it appears to not be deploying correctly but i'm not sure why... 10:22:41,343 INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/C:/Program Files/j boss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/deploy/myproject.ear/ 10:22:42,453 INFO [Ejb3Deployment] EJB3 deployment time took: 407 10:22:42,593 INFO [Ejb3Deployment] EJB3 deployment time took: 125 10:22:42,609 INFO [JmxKernelAbstraction] installing MBean: jboss.j2ee:ear=mypro ject.ear,jar=jboss-seam.jar,name=Dispatcher,service=EJB3 with dependencies: 10:22:42,609 INFO [EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: org.jboss.seam.core.Dispatcher ej bName: Dispatcher 10:22:42,625 INFO [EJB3Deployer] Deployed: file:/C:/Program Files/jboss-4.0.5.G A/server/default/deploy/myproject.ear/jboss-seam.jar 10:22:42,625 INFO [JmxKernelAbstraction] installing MBean: persistence.units:ea r=myproject.ear,unitName=myproject with dependencies: 10:22:42,625 INFO [JmxKernelAbstraction] jboss.jca:name=myprojectDatasour ce,service=DataSourceBinding 10:22:42,625 INFO [EJB3Deployer] Deployed: file:/C:/Program Files/jboss-4.0.5.G A/server/default/deploy/myproject.ear/myproject.jar/ 10:22:42,640 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/myproject, warUrl=.../deplo y/myproject.ear/myproject.war/ 10:22:42,687 INFO [ServletContextListener] Welcome to Seam 1.1.0.GA 10:22:42,703 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/co re, package: org.jboss.seam.core, prefix: org.jboss.seam.core 10:22:42,703 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/fr amework, package: org.jboss.seam.framework, prefix: org.jboss.seam.core.framewor k 10:22:42,703 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/jm s, package: org.jboss.seam.jms, prefix: org.jboss.seam.jms 10:22:42,703 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/dr ools, package: org.jboss.seam.drools, prefix: org.jboss.seam.drools 10:22:42,703 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/re moting, package: org.jboss.seam.remoting, prefix: org.jboss.seam.remoting 10:22:42,703 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/th eme, package: org.jboss.seam.theme, prefix: org.jboss.seam.theme 10:22:42,718 INFO [Scanner] scanning: C:\Program Files\jboss-4.0.5.GA\server\de fault\deploy\myproject.ear\myproject.jar 10:22:42,718 INFO [Scanner] scanning: /C:/Program Files/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/d efault/tmp/deploy/tmp37131jboss-seam.jar 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/dr ools, package: org.jboss.seam.drools, prefix: org.jboss.seam.drools 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/re moting, package: org.jboss.seam.remoting, prefix: org.jboss.seam.remoting 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/th eme, package: org.jboss.seam.theme, prefix: org.jboss.seam.theme 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/co re, package: org.jboss.seam.core, prefix: org.jboss.seam.core 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/jm s, package: org.jboss.seam.jms, prefix: org.jboss.seam.jms 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] Namespace: http://jboss.com/products/seam/fr amework, package: org.jboss.seam.framework, prefix: org.jboss.seam.core.framewor k 10:22:42,765 INFO [Initialization] reading /WEB-INF/components.xml 10:22:42,781 INFO [Initialization] reading jar:file:/C:/Program Files/jboss-4.0 .5.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp37131jboss-seam.jar!/META-INF/components.xml 10:22:42,796 INFO [Initialization] reading properties from: /seam.properties 10:22:42,796 INFO [Initialization] reading properties from: /jndi.properties 10:22:42,796 INFO [Initialization] initializing Seam 10:22:42,796 INFO [Scanner] scanning: C:\Program Files\jboss-4.0.5.GA\server\de fault\deploy\myproject.ear\myproject.jar 10:22:42,812 INFO [Scanner] scanning: /C:/Program Files/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/d efault/tmp/deploy/tmp37131jboss-seam.jar 10:22:43,734 INFO [Initialization] two components with same name, higher preced ence wins: org.jboss.seam.core.pages 10:22:43,750 INFO [Initialization] two components with same name, higher preced ence wins: org.jboss.seam.core.manager 10:22:43,765 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.init, scope: APPLI CATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Init 10:22:43,781 INFO [Initialization] Installing components... 10:22:43,781 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.exceptions, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Exceptions 10:22:43,781 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.applicationContext , scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ApplicationCon text 10:22:43,796 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.conversationStack, scope: PAGE, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ConversationStack 10:22:43,796 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.remoting.messaging.subs criptionRegistry, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.rem oting.messaging.SubscriptionRegistry 10:22:43,796 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.isUserInRole, scop e: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.IsUserInRole 10:22:43,796 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.redirect, scope: C ONVERSATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Redirect 10:22:43,796 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.debug.contexts, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.debug.Contexts 10:22:43,796 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.framework.currentDateti me, scope: STATELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.framework.CurrentDa tetime 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.switcher, scope: P AGE, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Switcher 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.conversation, scop e: CONVERSATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Conversation 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.framework.currentDate, scope: STATELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.framework.CurrentDate 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.theme.themeSelector, sc ope: SESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.theme.ThemeSelector 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.facesMessages, sco pe: CONVERSATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.FacesMessages 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.persistenceContext s, scope: CONVERSATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.PersistenceC ontexts 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.safeActions, scope : APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.SafeActions 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.validation, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Validation 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.businessProcessCon text, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.BusinessPr ocessContext 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.messages, scope: S ESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Messages 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.sessionContext, sc ope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.SessionContext 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.conversationList, scope: PAGE, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ConversationList 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.conversationEntrie s, scope: SESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ConversationEntri es 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.facesPage, scope: PAGE, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.FacesPage 10:22:43,812 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.debug.introspector, sco pe: EVENT, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.debug.Introspector 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.pages, scope: APPL ICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Pages 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.theme.theme, scope: SES SION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.theme.Theme 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.resourceBundle, sc ope: SESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ResourceBundle 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.localeSelector, sc ope: SESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.LocaleSelector 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.remoting.remotingConfig , scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.remoting.RemotingCo nfig 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.facesContext, scop e: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.FacesContext 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.httpError, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.HttpError 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.uiComponent, scope : STATELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.UiComponent 10:22:43,828 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.manager, scope: EV ENT, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Manager 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.events, scope: APP LICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Events 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.userPrincipal, sco pe: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.UserPrincipal 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.persistence.persistence Provider, scope: STATELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.persistence.H ibernatePersistenceProvider 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.interpolator, scop e: STATELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Interpolator 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.locale, scope: STA TELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Locale 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: entityManager, scope: CONVERSATION, ty pe: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ManagedPersistenceContext 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.eventContext, scop e: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.EventContext 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.pageContext, scope : APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.PageContext 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.conversationContex t, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.ConversationC ontext 10:22:43,843 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.framework.currentTime, scope: STATELESS, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.framework.CurrentTime 10:22:43,859 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.expressions, scope : APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.Expressions 10:22:43,859 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.core.pojoCache, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.core.PojoCache 10:22:43,859 INFO [Initialization] done initializing Seam 10:22:43,859 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading standard config org/apache/myface s/resource/standard-faces-config.xml 10:22:43,890 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config jar:file:/C:/Program Files /jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp37131jboss-seam.jar!/META-INF/faces -config.xml 10:22:43,890 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config jar:file:/C:/Program%20Fil es/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/./deploy/myproject.ear/myproject.war/WEB-INF/li b/jboss-seam-debug.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml 10:22:43,906 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config jar:file:/C:/Program%20Fil es/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/./deploy/myproject.ear/myproject.war/WEB-INF/li b/jboss-seam-ui.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml 10:22:43,921 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config jar:file:/C:/Program%20Fil es/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/./deploy/myproject.ear/myproject.war/WEB-INF/li b/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml 10:22:43,921 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config /WEB-INF/navigation.xml 10:22:43,937 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml 10:22:43,953 WARN [LocaleUtils] Locale name in faces-config.xml null or empty, setting locale to default locale : en_US 10:22:44,031 INFO [StartupServletContextListener] ServletContext 'C:\Program Fi les\jboss-4.0.5.GA\server\default\.\deploy\myproject.ear\myproject.war\' initial ized. 10:22:44,031 INFO [StartupServletContextListener] Serialization provider : clas s org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.serial.DefaultSerialFactory 10:22:44,062 INFO [EARDeployer] Started J2EE application: file:/C:/Program File s/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/deploy/myproject.ear/ 10:22:44,140 INFO [WrapperDataSourceService] Bound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca :service=DataSourceBinding,name=myprojectDatasource' to JNDI name 'java:myprojec tDatasource' 10:22:44,140 WARN [Ejb3Configuration] Persistence provider caller does not impl ements the EJB3 spec correctly. PersistenceUnitInfo.getNewTempClassLoader() is n ull. 10:22:44,140 INFO [Configuration] Reading mappings from resource: META-INF/orm. xml 10:22:44,140 INFO [Ejb3Configuration] [PersistenceUnit: myproject] no META-INF/ orm.xml found 10:22:44,140 INFO [ConnectionProviderFactory] Initializing connection provider: org.hibernate.ejb.connection.InjectedDataSourceConnectionProvider 10:22:44,140 INFO [InjectedDataSourceConnectionProvider] Using provided datasou rce 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] RDBMS: MySQL, version: 5.0.27-community-nt 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC driver: MySQL-AB JDBC Driver, version: mysql-connector-java-3.1.14 ( $Date: 2006-10-18 17:40:15 +0200 (Wed, 18 Oct 200 6) $, $Revision: 5888 $ ) 10:22:46,625 INFO [Dialect] Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect 10:22:46,625 INFO [TransactionFactoryFactory] Transaction strategy: org.hiberna te.ejb.transaction.JoinableCMTTransactionFactory 10:22:46,625 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] instantiating TransactionMa nagerLookup: org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup 10:22:46,625 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] instantiated TransactionMan agerLookup 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Automatic flush during beforeCompletion(): disabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Automatic session close at end of transacti on: disabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC batch size: 15 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC batch updates for versioned data: disa bled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Scrollable result sets: enabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC3 getGeneratedKeys(): enabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Connection release mode: auto 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Maximum outer join fetch depth: 2 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Default batch fetch size: 1 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Generate SQL with comments: disabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Order SQL updates by primary key: disabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query translator: org.hibernate.hql.ast.AST QueryTranslatorFactory 10:22:46,625 INFO [ASTQueryTranslatorFactory] Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query language substitutions: {} 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] JPA-QL strict compliance: enabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Second-level cache: enabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query cache: enabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Cache provider: org.hibernate.cache.Hashtab leCacheProvider 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Optimize cache for minimal puts: disabled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Structured second-level cache entries: disa bled 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query cache factory: org.hibernate.cache.St andardQueryCacheFactory 10:22:46,625 INFO [SettingsFactory] Echoing all SQL to stdout 10:22:46,640 INFO [SettingsFactory] Statistics: disabled 10:22:46,640 INFO [SettingsFactory] Deleted entity synthetic identifier rollbac k: disabled 10:22:46,640 INFO [SettingsFactory] Default entity-mode: pojo 10:22:46,640 INFO [SessionFactoryImpl] building session factory 10:22:46,640 INFO [SessionFactoryObjectFactory] Not binding factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured 10:22:46,640 INFO [SchemaUpdate] Running hbm2ddl schema update 10:22:46,640 INFO [SchemaUpdate] fetching database metadata 10:22:46,640 INFO [SchemaUpdate] updating schema 10:22:46,640 INFO [SchemaUpdate] schema update complete 10:22:46,640 INFO [NamingHelper] JNDI InitialContext properties:{java.naming.fa ctory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory, java.naming.factory.url.p kgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces} 10:22:46,640 INFO [UpdateTimestampsCache] starting update timestamps cache at r egion: org.hibernate.cache.UpdateTimestampsCache 10:22:46,640 INFO [StandardQueryCache] starting query cache at region: org.hibe rnate.cache.StandardQueryCache 10:22:46,671 ERROR [URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing: --- Incompletely deployed packages --- org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@4b916bf4 { url=file:/C:/Program Files/jboss- 4.0.5.GA/server/default/deploy/myproject.ear/ } deployer: org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer@11f23e5 status: null state: FAILED watch: file:/C:/Program Files/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/default/deploy/myproject.e ar/ altDD: null lastDeployed: 1167502901218 lastModified: 1167419957484 mbeans: View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3996979#... 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