Spring entity classes are not recognized in JBoss EAP 6

Issue

• In Spring Application the entites are defined using Anontations javax.persistance.entity to recognize it. This is working fine with Weblogic but not in JBoss.

• The following below stack trace is encountered:

14:05:36,006 INFO  [org.jboss.web] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS018210: Registering web context: /WEB
14:05:36,022 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 28) JBAS018559: Deployed "EAR.ear"
14:05:36,104 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
14:05:36,105 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss EAP 6.0.0.GA (AS 7.1.2.Final-redhat-1) started in 11423ms - Started 304 of 392 services (83 services are passive or on-demand)
14:05:38,041 WARN  [com.arjuna.ats.jta] (Periodic Recovery) ARJUNA016027: Local XARecoveryModule.xaRecovery got XA exception XAException.XAER_RMERR: javax.transaction.xa.XAException
    at oracle.jdbc.xa.OracleXAResource.recover(OracleXAResource.java:709)
    at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.xa.XAManagedConnection.recover(XAManagedConnection.java:358)
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.recovery.arjunacore.XARecoveryModule.xaRecovery(XARecoveryModule.java:503) [jbossjts-4.16.4.Final-redhat-1.jar:]
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.recovery.arjunacore.XARecoveryModule.resourceInitiatedRecoveryForRecoveryHelpers(XARecoveryModule.java:471) [jbossjts-4.16.4.Final-redhat-1.jar:]
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.recovery.arjunacore.XARecoveryModule.bottomUpRecovery(XARecoveryModule.java:385) [jbossjts-4.16.4.Final-redhat-1.jar:]
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.recovery.arjunacore.XARecoveryModule.periodicWorkSecondPass(XARecoveryModule.java:166) [jbossjts-4.16.4.Final-redhat-1.jar:]
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.arjuna.recovery.PeriodicRecovery.doWorkInternal(PeriodicRecovery.java:789) [jbossjts-4.16.4.Final-redhat-1.jar:]
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.arjuna.recovery.PeriodicRecovery.run(PeriodicRecovery.java:371) [jbossjts-4.16.4.Final-redhat-1.jar:]

14:05:45,762 ERROR [org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher] (http-localhost/127.0.0.1:8080-1) Exception occurred during processing request: Unknown entity: testPOC.Customer: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown entity: testPOC.Customer
    at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.find(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:791) [hibernate-entitymanager-3.6.9.Final.jar:3.6.9.Final]
    at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.find(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:754) [hibernate-entitymanager-3.6.9.Final.jar:3.6.9.Final]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.ExtendedEntityManagerCreator$ExtendedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(ExtendedEntityManagerCreator.java:365) [spring-orm-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar:3.1.1.RELEASE]
    at $Proxy20.find(Unknown Source)    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator$SharedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(SharedEntityManagerCreator.java:240) [spring-orm-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar:3.1.1.RELEASE]
    at $Proxy20.find(Unknown Source)    at testPOC.CustomerService.addCustomer(CustomerService.java:13) [FINNTBSAPP.jar:]
    at com.Login.execute(Login.java:37) [classes:]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [rt.jar:1.6.0_33]