How to get automatic table creation working in spring / hibernate / jpa?

Question

I can't get automatic table creation working in spring when using hibernate / jpa.

Here are my config files:

<?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">

    <persistence-unit name="naveroTest">
     <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
     <class>xxx</class>
        ...


        <properties>
            <property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="class, hbm"/>
            <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
            <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
   <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:file:/tmp/naveroTestDB"/>
            <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="sa"/>
            <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value=""/> 
            <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create"/>
            <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

context.xml

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <beans xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
        xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.4.xsd">

     <!-- For auto creation of tables -->
     <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
      <property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" />
      <property name="url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:file:/tmp/naveroTestDB" />
      <property name="username" value="sa" />
      <property name="password" value="" />
     </bean>

     <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
      <property name="loadTimeWeaver">
       <bean class="org.springframework.instrument.classloading.InstrumentationLoadTimeWeaver" />
      </property>
      <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
       <bean id="jpaAdapter" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
        <property name="generateDdl" value="true" />
        <property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" />
        <property name="showSql" value="true" />
       </bean>
      </property>
     </bean>

     <bean id="PictureBean" class="de.navero.server.bl.PictureBean">
      <property name="entityManagerFactory"><ref local="entityManagerFactory" /></property>
     </bean>

    </beans>

Any ideas what may be wrong? Thanks for any help :).

Answer 1

try the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
  http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="naveroTest" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL" />
</persistence>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
        <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"/>
    </property>
    <property name="jpaProperties">
        <props>
...
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>

This works for me.