If we are OK to go the non standard route, I can look at adding a method on HibernateEntityManagerFactory. Set<Class<?>> getEntities(); returning the list of entities. Or even better you can do Collection metadatas = (Map) ( (HibernateEntityManagerFactory) emf ).getSessionFactory().getAllClassMetadata().values(); for(ClassMetadata metadata : metadatas) { Class<?> entityType = metadata.getMappedClass(EntityMode.POJO); if (entityType != null) doStuffCauseItsAnEntity( entityType ); } View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4224044#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...