[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (EJB-295) External META-INF/orm.xml not included even when explicitly requested when an internal orm.xml is already present

External META-INF/orm.xml not included even when explicitly requested when an internal orm.xml is already present ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: EJB-295 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/EJB-295 Project: Hibernate Entity Manager Issue Type: Bug Components: EntityManager Environment: Hibernate Core 3.2.4.GA Hibernate EntityManager 3.3.1.GA Reporter: Georges-Etienne Legendre Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.3.2.ga Attachments: testcase.zip We have the following situation: A jar library for our entity classes has been created. In it, there are these two files in the META-INF directory: persistence.xml and orm.xml. We define some common queries in the orm.xml file. This library is then used in another project. Because we would like to define other more specialized named queries in this project, we assumed that another orm.xml file (in the META-INF directoty) could be used. Without any workaround, it doesn't work. The entity manager only find/use the orm.xml contained in the library. To make it works, we have to add these 2 lines in the persistence.xml : <mapping-file>/META-INF/orm.xml</mapping-file> <mapping-file>/META-INF/orm.xml</mapping-file> The entity manager then includes both orm.xml files. In JSR 220, chapter 6.2.1.6, it's said: "... A object/relational mapping XML file named orm.xml may be specified in the META-INF directory in the root of the persistence unit or in the META-INF directory of any jar file referenced by the persistence. xml. Alternatively, or in addition, other mapping files may be referenced by the mapping-file elements of the persistence-unit element, and may be present anywhere on the class path."