>From a clean start, do you get the hibernate.AnnotationException when you deploy client.jar first before guestbook.jar? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4052161#4052161 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4052161