For some reason hibernate is not catching issues like mapping entities to tables that do not exist. My persistence.xml file looks like this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<persistence 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
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0">
<!-- A JPA Persistence Unit -->
<persistence-unit name="printLogixJpaUnit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.User</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.UserImage</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.TemplateInstance</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.UserOrder</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.OrderLineItem</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.OrderStatus</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.AgencyImage</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.Agency</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.Brokerage</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.SystemTemplate</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.TemplateType</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.Product</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.ProductDefinition</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.ExpeditedAddress</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.BrokerageUser</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.StateProvince</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.Country</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.AwardClub</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.SuperUser</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.AgencyUser</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.RememberMe</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.PasswordResetRequest</class>
<class>com.printlogix.rp.server.domain.SystemTheme</class>
<exclude-unlisted-classes>true</exclude-unlisted-classes>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
<!--Begin Credentials -->
<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/realtorprint_dev?autoReconnect=true"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="test"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="test"/>
<!--End Credentials -->
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>