Thank you for the reply
The JBoss version is 5.1.0.
Persistent unit(smalllake-bopc) is deployed with a warning just after this exception is thrown. Please see a portion of the log below
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Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: persistence not bound
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:771)
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at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1400)
... 133 more
09:10:29,332 INFO [PersistenceUnitDeployment] Starting persistence unit persistence.unit:unitName=sss.ear/sss.jar#smalllake-bopc
09:10:29,379 INFO [Version] Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0.GA
09:10:29,394 INFO [Environment] Hibernate 3.3.1.GA
09:10:29,394 INFO [Environment] hibernate.properties not found
09:10:29,394 INFO [Environment] Bytecode provider name : javassist
09:10:29,394 INFO [Environment] using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
09:10:29,457 INFO [Version] Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.1.0.GA
09:10:29,457 INFO [Version] Hibernate EntityManager 3.4.0.GA
09:10:29,488 INFO [Ejb3Configuration] Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
name: smalllake-bopc
...]
09:10:29,582 WARN [Ejb3Configuration] Persistence provider caller does not implement the EJB3 spec correctly. PersistenceUnitInfo.getNewTempClassLoader() is null.