JBoss 7.1 persistence.xml jar-file not scanned

[matukituki]

Hi,

I'm using JBoss 7.1 and trying something like this:

deployments

|-- app1.ear

|-- app2.ear

|-- entities1.jar

|-- entities2.jar

`-- persistence.jar

In entities1.jar resides the domain classes of app1.ear, in entities2.jar resides the domain classes of app2.ear

persistence.jar is the module containing the persist statements and defines the persistence unit:

persistence.jar/META-INF

|-- ejb-jar.xml

|-- MANIFEST.MF

|-- persistence.xml

The persistence.xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
    <persistence-unit name="ABC">
        <jta-data-source>java:/ABC_DS</jta-data-source>
         <jar-file>entities1.jar</jar-file>
         <jar-file>entities2.jar</jar-file>
         <properties>
             <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false"/>
             <property name="hibernate.id.new_generator_mappings" value="false"/>
         </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Here is the relevant part of the error I'm getting:

17:41:00,550 TRACE [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-1) PersistenceUnitMetadataImpl(version=2.0) [
    name: smtt
    jtaDataSource: java:/ABC_DS
    nonJtaDataSource: null
    transactionType: JTA
    provider: org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence
    classes[
    ]
    packages[
    ]
    mappingFiles[
    ]
    jarFiles[
        entities1.jar
        entities2.jar
    ]
    validation-mode: AUTO
    shared-cache-mode: UNSPECIFIED
    properties[
        hibernate.id.new_generator_mappings: false
        hibernate.show_sql: false
    ]]
...
17:41:00,931 TRACE [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-9) getClassesInJar url=/content/entities1.jar/ annotations=[interface javax.persistence.Embeddable, interface javax.persistence.MappedSuperclass, interface javax.persistence.Entity]
17:41:00,932 TRACE [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-9) No classes to scan for annotations in jar 'vfs:/content/entities1.jar/' (jars with classes '[vfs:/content/persistence.jar/]')
17:41:00,933 TRACE [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-9) getPackagesInJar url=/content/entities1.jar/ annotations=[]
17:41:00,933 TRACE [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-9) No classes to scan for annotations in jar 'vfs:/content/entities1.jar/' (jars with classes '[vfs:/content/persistence.jar/]')
17:41:00,936 TRACE [org.jboss.as.jpa] (MSC service thread 1-9) getClassesInJar url=/content/persistence.jar/ annotations=[interface javax.persistence.Embeddable, interface javax.persistence.MappedSuperclass, interface javax.persistence.Entity]
...
7:44:33,911 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb3.invocation] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS014134: EJB Invocation failed on component com.smartmatic.persistence.service.spec.IPersistenceService for method public abstract java.util.Collection com.smartmatic.persistence.service.spec.IPersistenceService.searchObjects(com.smartmatic.persistence.search.SearchExpression,com.smartmatic.domain.user.IUser) throws com.smartmatic.lang.BaseException: org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: com.smartmatic.saes.listener.domain.demographics.device.VotingDeviceTransmissorDat

Seeing the error "Unknown entity" makes clear that the domain entity classes of the entitiesX.jar are not scanned.

I have also tried referencing the domain classes like <jar-file>deployment.entities1.jar</jar-file> but get the same error.

So I'm thinking this is not possible, I mean, referencing the domain classes with the jar-file tag, if the jar files resides in the deployment folder.

Is this possible?