I'm sure this is a simple beginner error, but I've been pouring over both the 
JBoss and Hibernate docs and wikis and  and am not finding the key missing 
points.

I'm using JBoss 4.2.2.GA with it's included hibernate3.  I'm attempting to 
build EJB3 standard Entities.  I have several classes that are annotated with 
the javax.persistence.Entity anotation (@Entity) as well as the associated 
@Column, @Id, etc.  All of the annotations I use are from the javax.persistence 
package (i.e. I'm not using any hibernate or JBoss specific ones).  My classes 
are built into a jar with an associated persistence.xml file which maps to my 
Datasource (a PostgreSQL one) and sets the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property to 
create.  This jar fle is then bundled together with another MDB bean in an ear 
and deployed. 

It all deploys fine and associated table are created.  However, it appears that 
my Annotations are ignored!  It seems that hibernate is reflecting upon the 
classes in question and building it's own view of them for persistance 
purposes.  Specifically, the @Column name and length attributes are NOT as 
coded in my @Column annotations - they are based upon the actual class 
attribute name and what must be default lengths.  Additionally, the @Enumerated 
(EnumType.STRING) annotation is similiarly ignored as the created DB tables 
have integer types.

I've been looking at many different version of documentation as EJB3 support 
within both hibernae and JBoss have evolved.  Yet, I'm fundamentaly missing 
something.  Hence I'm starting to question my understanding.  

Is there some configuration that must be done to cause hibernate to honor the 
Annotations in preference to it's reflect and/or to disable it's reflection?  
Is it sufficient to have just EJB3 annotated classes with a persistence.xml 
file or are other configurations and/or files still required in and EJB3 
environment - the book I've been working from, 'EJB3 In Action', seems to 
indicate that this is all it takes.  

Are the hbm.xml and/or hibernate config files still required?  If so, can they 
be built from the Anotations?  How?  It seems that a HAR based deployment once 
was preferable, but perhaps no longer is?  I've additonally added a 
hibernate-service.xml service module in the ear's jboss-app that refernces the 
org.jboss.hibernate.jmx.Hibernate mbean.  This made no difference in the 
ignored annotations behavior?  Is this approach still needed/relavant?

Any and all guidence to a bewildered EJB3 beginner will be greatly apreciated!

TIA!

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