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?

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