Is it possible to have persistence.xml in a location other than META-INF?

Question

I want to have my persistence.xml in conf folder of my app. How can I tell Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory that it should read it from there?

Answer 1

The createEntityManagerFactory methods search for persistence.xml files within the META-INF directory of any CLASSPATH element. if your CLASSPATH contains the conf directory, you could place an EntityManagerFactory definition in conf/META-INF/persistence.xml