Scott Marlow wrote:
I just wanted to see if we all agree that the root of the persistence unit is not the META-INF folder but the folder that contains the META-INF.

Yes that is the intent of the spec. The report is saying Hibernate is not honoring that. Although given that we pass the JPA TCK, that either means this is a gap in the TCK or the report is inaccurate. I am writing a test to verify.