Hibernate Tools have been part of JBoss Developer Studio for a long time - now they are integrated with Dali - and you can use Dali's JPA Generate Entities from Tables feature. This video walks you through how to setup the Hibernate Configuration and the JBDC connection to allow for JPA entity generation. Sakila H2 Database: https://github.com/maxandersen/sakila-h2 For more information on how to Get Started with JBoss, please visit www.jboss.org/developer, follow us on Twitter @jbossdeveloper or you can follow me directly @burrsutter