Load Hibernate provider module during startup to avoid SessionFactory lookup failure

My hibernate app was running successfully in jboss-as-7.0.0.Final, I moved it to jboss-as-7.0.1.Final and I started receiving these errors

17:42:42,725 ERROR [com.mycompany.myapp.common.persistence.HibernateUtil] (MSC service thread 1-12) Initial SessionFactory lookup failed.: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named primary2
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:69) [hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar:1.0.1.Final]
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:47) [hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar:1.0.1.Final]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.persistence.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:35) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.businessobjects.ServerSettings.GetServerSettings(ServerSettings.java:84) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.jms.JMSListenerServletTemplate.init(JMSListenerServletTemplate.java:41) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.jms.JMSAnywhereServlet.init(JMSAnywhereServlet.java:179) [classes:]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1202) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1102) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3631) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3844) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.start(WebDeploymentService.java:70) [jboss-as-web-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26]

17:42:42,732 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/myapp]] (MSC service thread 1-12) StandardWrapper.Throwable: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.mycompany.myapp.common.persistence.HibernateUtil
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.businessobjects.ServerSettings.GetServerSettings(ServerSettings.java:92) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.jms.JMSListenerServletTemplate.init(JMSListenerServletTemplate.java:41) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.jms.JMSAnywhereServlet.init(JMSAnywhereServlet.java:179) [classes:]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1202) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1102) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3631) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3844) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.start(WebDeploymentService.java:70) [jboss-as-web-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26]

17:42:42,734 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/myapp]] (MSC service thread 1-12) Servlet /myapp threw load() exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.mycompany.myapp.common.persistence.HibernateUtil
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.businessobjects.ServerSettings.GetServerSettings(ServerSettings.java:92) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.jms.JMSListenerServletTemplate.init(JMSListenerServletTemplate.java:41) [classes:]
at com.mycompany.myapp.common.jms.JMSAnywhereServlet.init(JMSAnywhereServlet.java:179) [classes:]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1202) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1102) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3631) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3844) [jbossweb-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.start(WebDeploymentService.java:70) [jboss-as-web-7.0.1.Final.jar:7.0.1.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765)
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26]

my persistence.xml looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="primary">
<non-jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/MySqlDS</non-jta-data-source>

<properties>

<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
<property name="hibernate.ejb.interceptor.session_scoped" value="com.clairvista.liveexpert.common.persistence.BusinessObjectInterceptor"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

and my pom.xml looks like

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0.Beta5</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0.Beta5</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-infinispan</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0.Beta5</version>
</dependency>

the code that throws these errors looks like

entityManagerFactory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("primary");

Scott Marlow has indicated this problem is due to a change made to lazy load Hibernate instead of pre-loading.