Hello,

I use automatic DB creation on development with
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/> in persistence.xml
and I used to simply remove the property and restart the application server when I didn't need recreation of the db.
This worked fine for a while.

However, after a recent small DB change, I recreated the DB with the same property, but I don't manage to switch it off again.

I tried the following:
- delete the property hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto and restart the app server (didn't work)
- delete the property, stop the DBservice, restart app server, start DBservice, restart app server again (didn't work)
- delete the deployment war file and restart app server and redeployed the project (didn't work)

So the server doesn't catch the change in persistence.xml anymore. As a result, my db is recreated every time I restart the app server and I loose my test data.

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

PS. I am using: oracleXE, hibernate, seam & richfaces, jboss app server.