Hibernate with Spring-ORM cannot load an application table class in Fuse 6.1

Issue

• An application that uses Hibernate and Spring-ORM in Fuse fails because Hibernate cannot load a class in the application code that models a database table. This class is defined in an XML file and is therefore, presumably, passed by name to Hibernate.
• On Deploying the bundle, we get the following exception,

Exception in thread "SpringOsgiExtenderThread-2" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in URL [bundle://271.0:0/META-INF/spring/bundle-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.MappingException: entity class not found: hibernate.TestTable

    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1512)

Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: entity class not found: hibernate.TestTable
    at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.getMappedClass(PersistentClass.java:137)
    at org.hibernate.tuple.PropertyFactory.getGetter(PropertyFactory.java:390)
    at org.hibernate.tuple.PropertyFactory.buildIdentifierProperty(PropertyFactory.java:75)
    at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.EntityMetamodel.<init>(EntityMetamodel.java:145) 

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:hibernate.TestTable not found by org.hibernate.core [266]
    at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.findClassOrResourceByDelegation(BundleWiringImpl.java:1532)
    at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.access$400(BundleWiringImpl.java:75)
    at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl$BundleClassLoader.loadClass(BundleWiringImpl.java:1955)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:190)
    at org.hibernate.internal.util.ReflectHelper.classForName(ReflectHelper.java:192)
    at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.getMappedClass(PersistentClass.java:132)