Description of problem: Attepting to run "seam generate-model" on a seam-gen WAR project fails: $ ../../seam generate-model SEAM_HOME: /home/maschmid/testing/wfk/2.0.0.ER8/jboss-wfk-2.0.0.ER8/jboss-seam-2.3.0.Beta2-redhat-1 Using seam-gen sources from: /home/maschmid/testing/wfk/2.0.0.ER8/jboss-wfk-2.0.0.ER8/jboss-seam-2.3.0.Beta2-redhat-1/seam-gen Buildfile: /home/maschmid/testing/wfk/2.0.0.ER8/jboss-wfk-2.0.0.ER8/jboss-seam-2.3.0.Beta2-redhat-1/seam-gen/build.xml init: init-properties: [echo] /home/maschmid/testing/eap6/jboss-eap-6.0.0.CR1/jboss-eap-6.0/ validate-workspace: validate-project: init-generate: generate-model: [echo] Reverse engineering database using JDBC driver /home/maschmid/tmp/mysql-connector-java-5.1.19-bin.jar [echo] project=/home/maschmid/testing/wfk/2.0.0.ER8/jboss-wfk-2.0.0.ER8/jboss-seam-2.3.0.Beta2-redhat-1/tmp/myproject [echo] model=com.mydomain.myproject.model [hibernate] Executing Hibernate Tool with a JDBC Configuration (for reverse engineering) [hibernate] 1. task: hbm2java (Generates a set of .java files) BUILD FAILED /home/maschmid/testing/wfk/2.0.0.ER8/jboss-wfk-2.0.0.ER8/jboss-seam-2.3.0.Beta2-redhat-1/seam-gen/build.xml:1545: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/engine/Mapping
That is related to old hibernate-tools which doesn't work with HIbernate4 in runtime. We need to wait for proper release of hibernate-tools, which are bundled with JBTools 3.3.0 to get that into Seam gen. More in https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBSEAM-4978