OOps I clicked the wrong button.


OK I have solved my problem.

I am running Hibernate 3 on Websphere 6.1 FP 15, but this should apply to all Websphere as is quite a generic thing.

All I had to do was to give permissions to the administrator for CORBA naming Service.

To do this, in Websphere 6.1 might be different in other versions.

Login to the admin console and go to
Environment > Naming > CORBA Naming Service Users.

Here there were no users assigned in my install so I just added the administrator to have COS naming read/write and create.

I am not 100% sure of the implications of this but it fixed my problem.

cheers
Martin