AFAIR only the META-INF/orm.xml file present in the JAR containing META-INF/persistence.xml is handled automatically. Also <jar> references will be taken into account.
The spec mentions An object/relational mapping XML file named orm.xml may be specified in the META-INF directory in the root of the persistence unit or in the META-INF directory of any jar file referenced by the persistence.xml. > On 06 Mar 2015, at 23:56, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: > > Anyone remember why META-INF/orm.xml is handled specially in scanning? > > I am having some trouble locally with scanning matching multiple sources > named META-INF/orm.xml and am trying to understand the reason we do what we > do here. > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev