Where is your persistence.xml relative to your classes?
Try putting it in a META-INF directory with the same base as your classes.
e.g.
Lets say you have class foo.Bar and it is in a directory called "classes". Make your directory structure look as follows:
classes
- foo
- Bar.class
- META-INF
- persistence.xml
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