How to deploy JPA entities in an extra jar file?

16. Jul 2008, 12:26 CET | Link Daniel Behrwind

Hi,

I'm developing an application with several modules (different ear files) that have several JPA entities in common. Thus, I'd like to provide the modules with one jar file containing the annotated JPA entities. I've put this jar into the ear's lib directory but when I try to persist an entity I always get an IllegalArgumentException, telling me that the eneity is unknown:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown entity: com.symtavision.symtaweb.lib.AnalysisJob
at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.persist(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:215)
at org.jboss.ejb3.entity.TransactionScopedEntityManager.persist(TransactionScopedEntityManager.java:182)
at org.jboss.seam.persistence.EntityManagerProxy.persist(EntityManagerProxy.java:135)
at com.symtavision.symtaweb.clientinterface.handler.AnalysisRequestHandler.createAnalysisJob(AnalysisRequestHandler.java:54)
at com.symtavision.symtaweb.clientinterface.handler.AnalysisRequestHandler.commissionAnalysisJob(AnalysisRequestHandler.java:38)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:112)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InvocationContextImpl.proceed(InvocationContextImpl.java:166)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.EJBInvocationContext.proceed(EJBInvocationContext.java:44)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:56)
at org.jboss.seam.transaction.RollbackInterceptor.aroundInvoke(RollbackInterceptor.java:31)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:68)
at org.jboss.seam.core.MethodContextInterceptor.aroundInvoke(MethodContextInterceptor.java:42)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:68)
at org.jboss.seam.persistence.EntityManagerProxyInterceptor.aroundInvoke(EntityManagerProxyInterceptor.java:26)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:68)
at org.jboss.seam.persistence.HibernateSessionProxyInterceptor.aroundInvoke(HibernateSessionProxyInterceptor.java:27)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SeamInvocationContext.proceed(SeamInvocationContext.java:68)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.RootInterceptor.invoke(RootInterceptor.java:107)
at org.jboss.seam.intercept.SessionBeanInterceptor.aroundInvoke(SessionBeanInterceptor.java:50)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InvocationContextImpl.proceed(InvocationContextImpl.java:118)
at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.EJB3InterceptorsInterceptor.invoke(EJB3InterceptorsInterceptor.java:63)
at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
at org.jboss.ejb3.entity.ExtendedPersistenceContextPropagationInterceptor.invoke(ExtendedPersistenceContextPropagationInterceptor.java:57)
at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
at org.jboss.ejb3.entity.TransactionScopedEntityManagerInterceptor.invoke(TransactionScopedEntityManagerInterceptor.java:54)
at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
at org.jboss.ejb3.AllowedOperationsInterceptor.invoke(AllowedOperationsInterceptor.java:47)
at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPolicy.invokeInCallerTx(TxPolicy.java:126)
... 103 more

So, what steps are necessary to make Hibernate know the entities in the jar?

Thanks for any help!