We have a seperate jar file that contains all of our model/entity objects. This jar gets put in the WEB-INF/lib directory, since we are only using wars and not ears. Using the hibernate auto-discovery feature causes an exception to occur. In this configuration.

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: NOT IMPLEMENTED
at org.jboss.util.file.ArchiveBrowser.getBrowser(ArchiveBrowser.java:42)
at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.scanForClasses(Ejb3Configuration.java:541)
... 148 more

org.jboss.util.file.ArchiveBrowser.getBrowser(URL url, Filter filter) only supports URLS that have a protocol of "file". However, jars have a protocol of "jar:file:" and therefore it will throw a RuntimeException saying "NOT IMPLEMENTED" (at least according to my debugger). There is already a JarArchiveBrowser class, the ArchiveBrowser just needs to recognize the protocol and handle it.

This also affects Hibernate entity manager, since it gets included in the jboss-archive-browsing.jar in order to handle the auto-discovery of mapped entities feature.

I've marked this as critical, since it effects entity manager features (though its only advanced hibernate only functionality)