I have a web service that performs a simple database lookup. Unfortunately, Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory('xyzzy') fails in all cases.
My aar looks like: /com (class files in package format eg com/this/that/x.class) /META-INF services.xml /lib numerous jars I don't know where to put the persistence.xml file. I have tried putting it everywhere. I keep getting the following error: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named xyzzy at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:56) at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:34) at com.papajohns.snapshot.webservice.SurveySubmissionWebService.getSurvey(SurveySubmissionWebService.java:63) (etc) Or does that error mean something else?