since Java 10.0 NullPointer while searching for persistence - JPA eclipselink 2.6.5

I use for a Rest Service (Jersy in a TomEE Server) some EJB entities with eclipselink 2.6.5.

With jdk-1.8 it works fine, but with new jdk-10.0 now I got a NullPointerException while searching for persistence.

Is there an error or mismatch in my JPA environment?

Thank you

Steffen

Exception in thread "main" Local Exception Stack: 
Exception [EclipseLink-30005] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.6.5.v20170607-b3d05bd): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.PersistenceUnitLoadingException
    Exception Description: An exception was thrown while searching for persistence archives with ClassLoader: jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@41906a77
    Internal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.PersistenceUnitLoadingException.exceptionSearchingForPersistenceResources(PersistenceUnitLoadingException.java:127)
        at org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactoryImpl(PersistenceProvider.java:115)
        at org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceProvider.java:188)
        at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:79)
        at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:54)
        at de.company.test.simulation.session.MySimulationService.<init>(MySimulationService.java:50)
        at de.company.test.simulation.controller.MyController.<init>(MyController.java:81)
        at de.company.test.simulation.MySimulationLauncher.main(MySimulationLauncher.java:156)
    Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerSetupImpl.predeploy(EntityManagerSetupImpl.java:2030)
        at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.deployment.JPAInitializer.callPredeploy(JPAInitializer.java:100)
        at org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactoryImpl(PersistenceProvider.java:104)

my persitence.xml

http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd" version="2.1">

<persistence-unit name="myUnitName" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
    <provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
    <class>de.company.test.simulation.entities.ProjectEntity</class>

    <exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes>
    <properties>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://mysql.mediatransfer.de/dbName?useUnicode=true&useJDBCCompliantTimezoneS‌​hift=true&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&serverTimezone=UTC" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="userName" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="****" />

        <!-- EclipseLink should create the database schema automatically -->
        <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="none" />
        <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode" value="database" />
        <property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="SEVERE" />
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

And here is an example for an entity in my web application, ProjectEntity. This works fine for me in java 1.8.

    @Entity(name = "ProjectEntity")
    @Table(name = "project")
    public class ProjectEntity implements Serializable {
        @Id
        @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
        @Column(name = "id", nullable = false, unique = true, updatable = false)
        private Integer id; 
        @Column(name = "project_name", nullable = false, length = 256)
        @NotNull
        private String projectName; 
        public ProjectEntity() {}
        //

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