OK, I looked it up again... Your current hibernate.cfg.xml says:
*<property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate. transaction.JTATransactionFactory</property> <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class">org.hibernate .transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup</property> * You should try replacing this with: *<property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory</property> * Give it a whirl, and see if that helps. Cheers! Neven