ClassNotFoundException on persisting serialized class

[Jon Solanu]

I am attempting to migrating from Toplink to OpenJPA and have encountered a
problem persisting a object.  With Toplink I was able to use the definition
below to persist a object into a BLOB field however after moving to OpenJPA
I am getting a ClassNotFoundException when attempting to store the value.
The class definition is stored in a separate JAR file all packaged in an EAR
running on Weblogic 10.3.

Is there a property to define classpaths separately with OpenJPA?  Any idea
why classes in the same project could not be referenced?




The entity is defined with the following attribute definition
    @Basic()
    @Column(name="METADATA_LIST", length=4000)
    public SerializedClass getSerialzedClass() {
        return this.serializedClass;
    }
    public void setSerializedClass(SerializedClass serializedClass) {
        this.serializedClass= serializedClass;
    }


Thanks,
Jon