Kinda new with hibernate and trying to figure out how best to use it.

I have an application (APPL_A) that is in a JAR. It has its own persistence.xml file and works great.

I now have the need to build another application that will use functionality in APPL_A. I will be setting up this new application as a JAR also with its own persistence.xml file.

It seems this should be allowed so that you can construct modular components that can be called (that are self-contained with appropriate JPA plumbing).

This seems not to work because I believe its loading up the persistence.xml file in the new application only.

Has anyone else tried this and got it working?

Thanks!