I agree with Carlo, whilst for the narrow scope of making WB spec compliant, I only need @Entity/orm.xml (i.e. spec'd entities) it would be much more user friendly to also extend this to provider specific entities (case in point is hbm.xml). If necessary for EE6/AS6 we can do a simple impl: * expose an SPI Iterable discoverOrmXml(); which should return all orm.xml in a DU (AS already has a facility to find meta-inf files in JARS), and parse it in WB for class names * check entities for @Entity in WB * make it possible to replace this simple impl if a container wants to (we would want to do so in JBoss for a hibernate-aware version - speed + hbm.xml) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4221621#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...