Are there any plans to fix this issue? I just spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the <jar-file> attribute to work, until I found this issue and realized I can't. Or is there an easy workaround for this in 4.3.5.Final? Currently I'm listing the entities in external jars explicitly with <class>, and I'd rather not do that. After looking at the related sources, this seems like a relatively easy fix, since the absolute path to persistence.xml is known, so resolving the relative paths to the JARs should be no problem. Or is there something I'm missing?