Excerpt from META-INF/persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <persistence 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" version="2.0"> <persistence-unit name="simple-jpa-template" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"> <class>org.springbyexample.orm.jpa.bean.Person</class> <class>org.springbyexample.orm.jpa.bean.Address</class> <exclude-unlisted-classes/> <properties> <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" /> <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" /> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="validate" /> <property name="hibernate.ejb.naming_strategy" value="org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy"/> <property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider" /> </properties> </persistence-unit> ... </persistence>