I am trying to deploy EAR in TomEE. Ear contains a WAR file and a JAR file. And inside the Jar file, under META-INF, I have the persistence.xml file. I added hibernate jars under Tomee/lib
When I start the tomee, I am getting following exception.
org.apache.openejb.OpenEJBException: Creating application failed: C:\apache-tomee-1.7.4-webprofile-without\apps\cmsear: org/hibernate/mapping/MappedSuperclass
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:843)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:677)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.buildContainerSystem(Assembler.java:568)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.build(Assembler.java:464)
        at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:151)
        at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:309)
        at org.apache.tomee.catalina.TomcatLoader.initialize(TomcatLoader.java:256)
        at org.apache.tomee.catalina.ServerListener.install(ServerListener.java:167)
        at org.apache.tomee.catalina.ServerListener.lifecycleEvent(ServerListener.java:54)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:394)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:110)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:642)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:667)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:253)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:427)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/mapping/MappedSuperclass
        at org.hibernate.ejb.metamodel.MetamodelImpl.buildMetamodel(MetamodelImpl.java:59)
        at org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:83)
        at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:883)
        at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:73)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.EntityManagerFactoryCallable.call(EntityManagerFactoryCallable.java:64)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.ReloadableEntityManagerFactory.createDelegate(ReloadableEntityManagerFactory.java:116)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.ReloadableEntityManagerFactory.<init>(ReloadableEntityManagerFactory.java:102)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.PersistenceBuilder.createEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceBuilder.java:154)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.loadPersistenceUnits(Assembler.java:982)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:741)
        ... 20 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.mapping.MappedSuperclass
        at org.apache.openejb.util.classloader.URLClassLoaderFirst.loadClass(URLClassLoaderFirst.java:136)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
        ... 30 more
I have tried configuring tomee and hibernate using the following link: http://tomee.apache.org/tomee-and-hibernate.html
Could anyone help me in fixing this exception? And please let me know if I need to provide any other information. Thanks.
Edit 1: Removed the jars from the WEB-INF/lib folder. And now getting the following exception:
INFO: Named query checking : enabled
Apr 24, 2018 11:29:31 AM org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl <init>
INFO: building session factory
Apr 24, 2018 11:29:32 AM org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory addInstance
INFO: Not binding factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured
Apr 24, 2018 11:29:32 AM org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.ReloadableEntityManagerFactory createDelegate
INFO: PersistenceUnit(name=JPADB, provider=org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence) - provider time 2509ms
Apr 24, 2018 11:29:32 AM org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler destroyApplication
INFO: Undeploying app: C:\apache-tomee-1.7.4-webprofile-without\apps\cmsear
Apr 24, 2018 11:29:32 AM org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler buildContainerSystem
SEVERE: Application could not be deployed:  C:\apache-tomee-1.7.4-webprofile-without\apps\cmsear
org.apache.openejb.OpenEJBException: Creating application failed: C:\apache-tomee-1.7.4-webprofile-without\apps\cmsear: org/hibernate/mapping/MappedSuperclass
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:843)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.createApplication(Assembler.java:677)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.buildContainerSystem(Assembler.java:568)
        at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.build(Assembler.java:464)
        at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:151)
        at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:309)
        at org.apache.tomee.catalina.TomcatLoader.initialize(TomcatLoader.java:256)
        at org.apache.tomee.catalina.ServerListener.install(ServerListener.java:167)
        at org.apache.tomee.catalina.ServerListener.lifecycleEvent(ServerListener.java:54)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:394)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:110)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:642)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:667)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:253)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:427)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/mapping/MappedSuperclass
EDIT 2 : Following are the jars that I have inside my tomee/lib :
hibernate-annotations-3.5.0.Final.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations-5.0.1.Final.jar
hibernate-core-3.5.0-Final.jar
hibernate-entitymanager-3.5.0-Final.jar
hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-4.2.0.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-4.2.0.Final.jar
Edit 3 : Updated hibernate jars inside tomee/lib. Now the folder contains the following hibernate related jars.
hibernate-commons-annotations-5.0.1.Final.jar
hibernate-core-5.0.12-Final.jar
hibernate-entitymanager-5.0.12-Final.jar
hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-4.2.0.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-annotation-processor-4.2.0.Final.jar
jboss-logging-3.3.0.Final.jar
Edit 4 : My application.xml looks as follows:
  <module>
    <web>
      <web-uri>abc.war</web-uri>
      <context-root>abc</context-root>
    </web>
  </module>
  <module>
    <ejb>defEJB.jar</ejb>
  </module>