Migrating .ear to JBoss 5 with several EJB3 Jars inside

[icordoba]

Hello,
I am migrating to JBoss 5 from Jboss 4.0.3
My application is packed in an .ear file with multiple .jar files inside.

All share a common persistence unit and have relations between them. This works OK in JBoss 4.0.3 (To make it work I had to include all EJBs in the orm.xml file in the .ear META-INF dir)

Now, when deploying this same .ear in JBoss 5 I find that EJBs in a jar file is not visible to EJBs in another jar (even they are in the same .ear file and they all appear in orm.xml file as exposed)
Am I missing something that I must include in JBoss 5?

This is one of the multiple errors I get:
com.servengine.dns.VirtualHost and com.servengine.portal.Portal are the entities packed echaone in a different jar.

2009-10-09 11:43:54,073 ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController] (main) Error installing to Start: name=persistence.unit:unitName=tuportal3.ear/ServEngineDNSEJB.jar#mainPersistenceUnit state=Create
org.hibernate.AnnotationException: @OneToOne or @ManyToOne on com.servengine.dns.VirtualHost.portal references an unknown entity: com.servengine.portal.Portal
 at org.hibernate.cfg.ToOneFkSecondPass.doSecondPass(ToOneFkSecondPass.java:81)
 at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.processEndOfQueue(AnnotationConfiguration.java:456)
 at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.processFkSecondPassInOrder(AnnotationConfiguration.java:438)
 at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.secondPassCompile(AnnotationConfiguration.java:309)
 at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildMappings(Configuration.java:1148)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildMappings(Ejb3Configuration.java:1226)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.EventListenerConfigurator.configure(EventListenerConfigurator.java:173)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:854)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:425)
 at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:131)
 at org.jboss.jpa.deployment.PersistenceUnitDeployment.start(PersistenceUnitDeployment.java:301)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

I have read docs but have no info about this. Do I have to repack my EJBs all in one ear?
Thanks for any directions.

Ignacio

[icordoba]

Sorry, I mean, "Do I have to repack my EJBs all in one jar inside the ear?

Thanks :-)

[jaikiran]

"icordoba" wrote:
Sorry, I mean, "Do I have to repack my EJBs all in one jar inside the ear?

In your posts, by "EJB" do you mean JPA/Hibernate entities?

[icordoba]

Well,
they are EJB3 entities. I guest they have most in common with HJPA/Hibernate entities but I try not to code anything outside EJB3 specifications, so I never deal with Hibernate in my code, even though I know it is there taking care of EJB3 persistence.

May I ask if dealing with Hibernate specifically can solve my problem?

Thanks,
Ignacio