I'm using Hibernate 3.5.0-Final. (Yeah, yeah.)

I want to use the hibernate.dialect_loaders property.

Because of HHH-5306, it looks like the only way to set this property is in hibernate.properties or as a System property.

I want to set this property so that it is scoped to my .ear file. I'm beginning to think this is impossible.

My question: when, in a standard Java EE 6 container, is this properties file read by Hibernate (when the Hibernate that is used is part of the container, not the .ear file)? On container startup, or on application deploy? Does it apply only to the application, or to the entire container? Is there a way in Hibernate 3.5.0-Final that I can get my dialect loader to be used at persistence unit deployment time?

Thanks,
Laird