There are a lot of books out on Hibernate. I would got with http://www.manning.com/bauer2/ View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124152#4124152 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4124152