Why is persistence unit named null when persistence.xml exists

Question

I am using Wildfly 8.1 together with a EJB Project (EJB 3.2) containing entities. When trying to inject the Entity Manager into one of my Beans i get the following:

JBAS011440: Can't find a persistence unit named null in deployment \"EntitiesProject.jar\""},
"JBAS014771: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => [
    "jboss.deployment.unit.\"EntitiesProject.jar\".weld.weldClassIntrospector is missing [jboss.deployment.unit.\"EntitiesProject.jar\".beanmanager]",
    "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO.HandleDelegate is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO]",
    "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO.InstanceName is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO]",
    "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO.InAppClientContainer is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO]",
    "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO.Validator is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO]",
    "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO.ORB is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO]",
    "jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO.ValidatorFactory is missing [jboss.naming.context.java.comp.EntitiesProject.EntitiesProject.MitarbeiterDAO]"
]

This is my SessionBean where I try to inject the EntityManager:

@Stateless
public class MitarbeiterDAO implements MitarbeiterDAORemote {

    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em;

    public int writeMitarbeiterToDB(Mitarbeiter m)
    {
        em.persist(m);
        return m.getId();
    }
}

I have specified the following persistence.xml file which I put to "project-name"/ejbModule/META-INF.

<persistence-unit name="mitarbeiter">
   <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
      <jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/MySqlDS</jta-data-source>
   <properties>
      <property-name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
   </properties>
</persistence-unit>

Similar questions and their solutions

• Can't find persistence unit suggests to include a persistence.xml
• Injecting entityManager in Wildfly / Jboss points out that there might be another directory where my persistence.xml belongs to. I tried that directory but still got the same error message.
• Cannot find persistence unit from persistence.xml While this is not exactly the same question the solution was to add a <provider> to persistence.xml, but this also did not work for me

Update (see comments):
- I have tried to use @EntityManager(unitName="mitarbeiter") instead of just @EntityManager - The Session Bean shown above is the only place where I try to inject EntityManager

Update 2 (see comments of answer):

• persistence.xml is in the directory Project/ejbModule/META-INF/
• This directory is included in the Build Path
• Somehow it's not getting deployed while other files in the same directory are (to jar/META-INF/). If I copy&paste it manually, it works. Why is that?

Any help and hints are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

A couple of possible issues:

• Incorrect location of the persistence.xml file. Please place it inside META-INF/ directory at the root of the archive. If you use maven it would be src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml.
• Invalid persistence.xml file: you have persistence-unit tag closed in line <persistence-unit name="mitarbeiter"/> (please notice / at the end)
• <property-name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/> is invalid. I suppose you wanted: <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />
• also provider you are using is deprecated.

In general, the correct persistence.xml content for JPA 2.1 in your case should look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd"
  version="2.1">

  <persistence-unit name="mitarbeiter">
    <provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
    <jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/MySqlDS</jta-data-source>

    <properties>
      <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />
    </properties>
  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>