Names such as Agent will pollute the entity name namespace of user applications, potentially creating conflicts with user entities.

We need to use prefixes for entity names, not just table names.

The problem is, setting <class entity-name="foo" ...> in hbm.xml will change the native (non-JPA) entity name, after which all entity operations (persist, load, …) must pass the entity name explicitly, because Hibernate ORM can no longer guess it from the class name. That may be easy, though; we just have to try.

I started a branch here: