"SchemaManagementException: Schema-validation: missing sequence [hibernate_sequence]" in JBoss EAP

Issue

• Migrating from Hibernate 3 / EAP 5 to Hibernate 5 / EAP 7
• hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto is set to validate in the persistence.xml (or the legacy/pre-JPA hibernate.cfg.xml)

• Encountering the exception below when deploying the application:

  ... org.hibernate.tool.schema.spi.SchemaManagementException: Schema-validation: missing sequence [hibernate_sequence]
          at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.AbstractSchemaValidator.validateSequence(AbstractSchemaValidator.java:184)
          ...
          at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:310)
          at org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:467)
          at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:939)
          ...