I have had the same experience with the rule base. My configuration is like yours but the contents of my rule file is this:# package bazLimsPermissions; | | import java.security.Principal; | | import org.jboss.seam.security.PermissionCheck; | import org.jboss.seam.security.Role; I put it in a directory besides hibernate.cfg.xml so that it is in the root of the classpath. And it gets deployed correctly, so that it is found at runtime. Hope this helps. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4015073#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...