By using the Maven processor plugin, and the Hibernate JPA model generator, the metamodel classes will be generated in the same package as the entities.
<plugin>
<!-- Maven processor -->
<!-- Processes Java annotations -->
<groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${plugin.processor.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-jpa-metamodel</id>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<processors>
<processor>org.hibernate.jpamodelgen.JPAMetaModelEntityProcessor</processor>
</processors>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<!-- Hibernate JPA model generator -->
<!-- This is used to generate the metamodel -->
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpamodelgen</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
They won't be added to the source code folders, but will be included in the target folder, and can be imported like any other dependency: