JPA e Netbenas - Não Sei?!?!?

Estou tentando da uma testada na JPA. Porem esta acontecendo o seguinte erro

Exception in thread “main” javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named persistencia: No META-INF/persistence.xml was found in classpath
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Esta é a minha classe:

[code]package persistencia;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.NamedQueries;
import javax.persistence.NamedQuery;
import javax.persistence.Table;

/**
*

  • @author Rafael Ferreira
    */
    @Entity
    @Table(name = “associado”)
    @NamedQueries({@NamedQuery(name = “Associado.findByAssCodigo”,
    query = “SELECT a FROM Associado a WHERE a.assCodigo = :assCodigo”),
    @NamedQuery(name = “Associado.findByAssNome”,
    query = “SELECT a FROM Associado a WHERE a.assNome = :assNome”)
    })
    public class Associado implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    @Id
    @Column(name = “ass_codigo”, nullable = false)
    private Integer assCodigo;
    @Column(name = “ass_nome”)
    private String assNome;

    public Associado() {
    }
    public Associado (Integer codigo, String nome){
    setAssCodigo(codigo);
    setAssNome(nome);
    }

    public Associado(Integer assCodigo) {
    this.assCodigo = assCodigo;
    }

    public Integer getAssCodigo() {
    return assCodigo;
    }

    public void setAssCodigo(Integer assCodigo) {
    this.assCodigo = assCodigo;
    }

    public String getAssNome() {
    return assNome;
    }

    public void setAssNome(String assNome) {
    this.assNome = assNome;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
    int hash = 0;
    hash += (assCodigo != null ? assCodigo.hashCode() : 0);
    return hash;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object object) {
    // TODO: Warning - this method won’t work in the case the id fields are not set
    if (!(object instanceof Associado)) {
    return false;
    }
    Associado other = (Associado) object;
    if ((this.assCodigo == null && other.assCodigo != null) || (this.assCodigo != null && !this.assCodigo.equals(other.assCodigo))) {
    return false;
    }
    return true;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
    return “persistencia.Associado[assCodigo=” + assCodigo + “]”;
    }
    } [/code]

[code]package persistencia;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.EntityTransaction;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;

/**
*

  • @author Administrador
    */
    public class Main {

    /**

    • @param args the command line arguments
      */
      public static void main(String[] args) {
      Associado associado = new Associado();
      associado.setAssCodigo(new Integer(1));
      associado.setAssNome(“Teste”);
      salva(associado);

    }

    public static void persist(Object object) {
    EntityManagerFactory emf = javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(“persistencia”);
    EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
    em.getTransaction().begin();
    try {
    em.persist(object);
    em.getTransaction().commit();
    } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    em.getTransaction().rollback();
    } finally {
    em.close();
    }
    }

    public static void salva(Object object){

      EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("persistencia");     
      EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();     
      EntityTransaction tx = em.getTransaction();     
      tx.begin();     
      em.persist(object);     
      tx.commit();     
      em.close();     
    

    }

}
Main
[/code]

persistence     
     
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     
<persistence version="1.0" 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 [url]http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">[/url]     
  <persistence-unit name="persistencia" >     
    <provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider</provider>     
    <class>persistencia.Associado</class>     
    <properties>     
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.user" value="postgres"/>     
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.password" value="postgres"/>     
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/jpa"/>     
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.driver" value="org.postgresql.Driver"/>     
    </properties>     
  </persistence-unit>     
</persistence>     
persistence   
  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>   
<persistence version="1.0" 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 [url]http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">[/url]   
  <persistence-unit name="persistencia" >   
    <provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider</provider>   
    <class>persistencia.Associado</class>   
    <properties>   
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.user" value="postgres"/>   
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.password" value="postgres"/>   
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/jpa"/>   
      <property name="toplink.jdbc.driver" value="org.postgresql.Driver"/>   
    </properties>   
  </persistence-unit>   
</persistence> 

No meu projeto estao adicionados os seguintes JAR:

[quote]PostgresSQL Drive
TopLink-essentials.jar
TopLink-essentials-agente.far[/quote]

Olá, estava com o mesmo problema…
e não sei se você conseguiu resolver… mas eu consegui… vai lah
vc tem que jogar p pasta dos bytecodes(aquela pasta que possui os arquivos .class)… a pasta META-INF …
n sei pq diabos, o netbeans não copiou essa pasta p pasta dos bytecods…
espero ter ajudado,
fwl pessoal
Jonathan Martinez

Agradeço a atençao e a lembraná do amigo!!
muito obrigado!!