make sure hbm2ddl is set to create-drop in persistence.xml. Unless you actually mean create the database - hbm2ddl doesn't do that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4098510#4098510 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4098510