As already posted in my last comment: anonymous wrote : Btw, please check if there are other hibernate.cfg.xml files in your classpath, and don't forget to search inside *.jar files as well. Maybe yours is just not getting picked up. from your list I see you have * hibernate.cfg.xml * jbpm.sar.cfg.jar The latter one contains config files as well, my guess these are the ones that get picked up, so please remove this archive from your deployment. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122264#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...