Thanks in advance for any help. I am trying to use JEE 5 Persistence, but I can't get my j2se app to run.

I am using:
Hibernate Core 3.2, Hibernate Annotations 3.2 CR1, and Hibernate EntityManager 3.2 CR1.

The error:
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named sample

The code:
factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("sample");
manager = factory.createEntityManager();

persistence.xml is in META-INF in the bin folder. bin is in the classpath.

ClassLoader.getSystemResource("META-INF/persistence.xml");
works fine.

Contents of persistence.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/ ... ce_1_0.xsd"
version="1.0">

<persistence-unit name="sample" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<class>rgc.Person</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class"
value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username"
value="root"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password"
value="z8pp8lin"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url"
value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/hibtest"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect"
value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"
value="update"/>
</properties>

</persistence-unit>

</persistence>


Thanks again for ay advice....

I was going to step through the source code, but I cannot find the source for Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory()? I assume it is in ejb3-persistence.jar. I am sure it ends up calling hibernate EntityManager, for which I do have the source.

What is the easiest way to get the source for ejb3-persistence.jar?

Well I figured it out. It was my own deployment mistake.

I found the source for ejb3-persistence.jar at glassfish. After perusing the source for Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory, I realized that ejb3-persistence.jar provides an abstraction layer above hibernate. This enables various persistence providers to be used. The provider class names should be in META-INF/services.

At this point I realized there was no jar in my classpath with META-INF/services. What I had done was copy the lib directory from hibernate-entitymanager-3.2.0.CR1 and forgot hibernate-entitymanager.jar in the root!

Note that this is NOT found at compile time. All you need to compile is ejb3-persistence.jar. hibernate-entitymanager.jar is only required to run.

I am posting this in the hopes of helping any other poor soul, like myself, from subjecting themselves to their own ineptitude.

;-)