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    accessing persistence unit in jar.
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>New to jboss and created the following projects using jboss tools in eclipse.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Name&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Eclipse Project</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">EAR&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; EAR Project</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">EJB&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; EJB Project</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">PERSISTENCE&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; JPA Project</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">WEB&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Dynamic Web Project<br/></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>In a backing bean in the WEB project, I cannot create an entity manager.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">@Named</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">@RequestScoped</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">public class UserAction {</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;@PersistenceContext</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;private EntityManager em;</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;public String getText() {</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;return "UserAction";</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;}</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">}</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><br/></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I've tried '@PersistenceContext(unitName="PERSISTENCE")' and <span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">'@PersistenceContext(unitName="PERSISTENCE.jar#PERSISTENCE")' no luck.</span><br/></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Monty</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>-------------------------------------------</p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">The persistence.xml in the PERSISTENCE project is:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><br/></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><span>&lt;persistence version="2.0" xmlns="</span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence</a><span>" xmlns:xsi="</span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</a><span>" xsi:schemaLocation="</span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence</a><span> </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd" target="_blank">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd</a><span>"&gt;</span></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&lt;persistence-unit name="PERSISTENCE"&gt;</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&lt;jta-data-source&gt;java:jboss/datasources/xxxx&lt;/jta-data-source&gt;</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&lt;exclude-unlisted-classes&gt;false&lt;/exclude-unlisted-classes&gt;</span></p><p style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