I thought maybe I wasnt including the maven dependency so I added
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tapestry</groupId> <artifactId>tapestry-jpa</artifactId> <version>${tapestry-release-version}</version> </dependency> and still no solution if its zipped up in the jar file of tapestry... how isnt the runtime core modules not being launched ? Do I need to do this somehow ?