sorry, working across two different machines. not "unknown entity" but "entity class not found".
here's everything from the deployment of the ear.
07:24:53,734 INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/D:/Profiles/awxcm/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/deploy/NextGenRM_Demo.ear
07:24:55,421 INFO [Environment] Hibernate 3.2.4.sp1
07:24:55,453 INFO [Environment] hibernate.properties not found
07:24:55,453 INFO [Environment] Bytecode provider name : javassist
07:24:55,453 INFO [Environment] using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
07:24:55,515 INFO [Configuration] Searching for mapping documents in jar: NextGenRMDemo.har
07:24:55,515 INFO [Configuration] Found mapping document in jar: Date.hbm.xml
07:24:55,625 INFO [HbmBinder] Mapping class: com.agfa.healthcare.resultsmanagement.domain.Date -> dates
07:24:55,687 INFO [NamingHelper] JNDI InitialContext properties:{}
07:24:55,703 INFO [DatasourceConnectionProvider] Using datasource: java:/NextGenRMDemoDS
07:24:55,703 INFO [SettingsFactory] RDBMS: HSQL Database Engine, version: 1.8.0
07:24:55,703 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC driver: HSQL Database Engine Driver, version: 1.8.0
07:24:55,734 INFO [Dialect] Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
07:24:55,734 INFO [TransactionFactoryFactory] Transaction strategy: org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
07:24:55,734 INFO [NamingHelper] JNDI InitialContext properties:{}
07:24:55,734 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] instantiating TransactionManagerLookup: org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup
07:24:55,734 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] instantiated TransactionManagerLookup
07:24:55,734 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] instantiating TransactionManagerLookup: org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup
07:24:55,734 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] instantiated TransactionManagerLookup
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Automatic flush during beforeCompletion(): enabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Automatic session close at end of transaction: enabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC batch size: 15
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC batch updates for versioned data: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Scrollable result sets: enabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] JDBC3 getGeneratedKeys(): enabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Connection release mode: after_statement
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Default batch fetch size: 1
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Generate SQL with comments: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Order SQL updates by primary key: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Order SQL inserts for batching: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query translator: org.hibernate.hql.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
07:24:55,734 INFO [ASTQueryTranslatorFactory] Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query language substitutions: {}
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] JPA-QL strict compliance: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Second-level cache: enabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Query cache: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Cache provider: org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Optimize cache for minimal puts: disabled
07:24:55,734 INFO [SettingsFactory] Structured second-level cache entries: disabled
07:24:55,750 INFO [SettingsFactory] Echoing all SQL to stdout
07:24:55,750 INFO [SettingsFactory] Statistics: disabled
07:24:55,750 INFO [SettingsFactory] Deleted entity synthetic identifier rollback: disabled
07:24:55,750 INFO [SettingsFactory] Default entity-mode: pojo
07:24:55,750 INFO [SettingsFactory] Named query checking : enabled
07:24:55,812 INFO [SessionFactoryImpl] building session factory
07:24:55,875 WARN [ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss.har:service=Hibernate
org.hibernate.MappingException: entity class not found: com.agfa.healthcare.resultsmanagement.domain.Date
at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.getMappedClass(PersistentClass.java:99)
at org.hibernate.tuple.PropertyFactory.getGetter(PropertyFactory.java:168)
at org.hibernate.tuple.PropertyFactory.buildIdentifierProperty(PropertyFactory.java:44)
at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityMetamodel.<init>(EntityMetamodel.java:123)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.<init>(AbstractEntityPersister.java:434)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister.<init>(SingleTableEntityPersister.java:109)
at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:55)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:226)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1294)
at org.jboss.hibernate.jmx.Hibernate.buildSessionFactory(Hibernate.java:231)
at org.jboss.hibernate.jmx.Hibernate.startService(Hibernate.java:155)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:245)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:978)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:417)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:304)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:1025)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:1015)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:819)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor25.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
at $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:634)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: No ClassLoaders found for: com.agfa.healthcare.resultsmanagement.domain.Date
at org.jboss.mx.loading.LoadMgr3.beginLoadTask(LoadMgr3.java:212)
at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClassImpl(RepositoryClassLoader.java:521)
at org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader.loadClass(RepositoryClassLoader.java:415)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at org.hibernate.util.ReflectHelper.classForName(ReflectHelper.java:100)
at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.getMappedClass(PersistentClass.java:96)
... 56 more
07:24:55,890 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/NextGenRM_Demo, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp5375NextGenRM_Demo.ear-contents/NextGenRM_Demo-exp.war/
07:24:56,281 INFO [[/NextGenRM_Demo]] Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
07:24:56,281 INFO [ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
07:24:56,328 INFO [XmlWebApplicationContext] Refreshing org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@24d3a: display name [Root WebApplicationContext]; startup date [Thu Dec 11 07:24:56 CST 2008]; root of context hierarchy
07:24:56,406 INFO [XmlBeanDefinitionReader] Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]
07:24:56,468 INFO [XmlWebApplicationContext] Bean factory for application context [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@24d3a]: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@b458fd
07:24:56,500 INFO [DefaultListableBeanFactory] Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@b458fd: defining beans []; root of factory hierarchy
07:24:56,500 INFO [ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 219 ms
07:24:56,546 INFO [[/NextGenRM_Demo]] Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'nextgenrm_demo'
07:24:56,546 INFO [DispatcherServlet] FrameworkServlet 'nextgenrm_demo': initialization started
07:24:56,546 INFO [XmlWebApplicationContext] Refreshing org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@134329b: display name [WebApplicationContext for namespace 'nextgenrm_demo-servlet']; startup date [Thu Dec 11 07:24:56 CST 2008]; parent: org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@24d3a
07:24:56,546 INFO [XmlBeanDefinitionReader] Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/nextgenrm_demo-servlet.xml]
07:24:56,578 INFO [XmlWebApplicationContext] Bean factory for application context [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@134329b]: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1a1732d
07:24:56,625 INFO [DefaultListableBeanFactory] Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1a1732d: defining beans [messageSource,/dateList.htm,/modifyDays.htm,dateDao,dateManager,viewResolver]; parent: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@b458fd
07:24:56,765 INFO [DispatcherServlet] FrameworkServlet 'nextgenrm_demo': initialization completed in 219 ms
07:24:56,781 INFO [EARDeployer] Started J2EE application: file:/D:/Profiles/awxcm/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/deploy/NextGenRM_Demo.ear