JPA: No persistence provider for EntityManager - Standard Java App

Question

I have a standard java application (not Java EE), and I'm trying to learn about JPA. The problem is that when I run the project, the console outputs:

1218 [main] INFO org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration  - HHH000318: Could not find any META-INF/persistence.xml file in the classpath
Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named entities
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:89)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:60)
at com.svprdga.test.App.main(App.java:26)

So I figure that it's not finding my persistence.xml file, I've searched around and I see fixes which involves Java EE folders like WEB-INF, but that's not my case, also I've tried another solutions but the problem is still there.

I have persistence.xml in META-INF, under /src, and its content is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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"
  version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
  <persistence-unit name="entities" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
  <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
    <class>com.svprdga.test.database.entity</class>
    <properties>

      <property name="toplink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibtest"/>
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.user" value="root"/>
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.password" value=""/>

      <!-- EclipseLink should create the database schema automatically -->
      <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="create-tables" />
      <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode"
        value="database" />
    </properties>

  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I found the solution, it appears that META-INF must be under src/main/resources if you are using Maven; then persistence.xml will be catched.