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C3P0ConnectionProvider Issue with Hibernate 3.6

I have been trying to configure hibernate with my restful service for making API calls to DB. I have configured hibernate connection properties as follows.
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:#ABCDHostname:12345:ABCDHost</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">amazon.jdbc.driver.SecureDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">2</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">5</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquireIncrement">2</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.initialPoolSize">2</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">36000</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">300</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.preferredTestQuery">select 1 from dual</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>
<!-- Set the context of a session to enable the use of getCurrentSession() -->
<property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>
</session-factory>
I get the DB username and password from my java program which is correct and verified.
The issue is when I run this program the account gets locked immediately at the DB level not sure what is causing this issue.
Error Logs states as follows:-
[java] 16 Nov 2018 00:19:25,920 [WARN] [] (C3P0PooledConnectionPoolManager[identityToken->2shhjy9z76iitk1d7keqo|15be40d5]-HelperThread-#0) com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool: com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$ScatteredAcquireTask#f525c9d -- Acquisition Attempt Failed!!! Clearing pending acquires. While trying to acquire a needed new resource, we failed to succeed more than the maximum number of allowed acquisition attempts (30). Last acquisition attempt exception:
[java] java.sql.SQLException: ORA-28000: the account is locked
[java] 16 Nov 2018 00:19:25,924 [WARN] [] (http-nio-0.0.0.0-8001-exec-12) org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter: SQL Error: 0, SQLState: null
[java] 16 Nov 2018 00:19:25,925 [ERROR] [] (http-nio-0.0.0.0-8001-exec-12) org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter: Connections could not be acquired from the underlying database!
[java] 16 Nov 2018 00:19:25,925 [ERROR] [] (http-nio-0.0.0.0-8001-exec-12) com.amazon.mytimeutilities.utils.mytime.PeoplePortalStagingCaller: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Cannot open connection
[java] 16 Nov 2018 00:19:25,932 [ERROR] [] (http-nio-0.0.0.0-8001-exec-12) org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Tomcat].
[java] org.jboss.resteasy.spi.UnhandledException: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Cannot open connection.
Any pointers on what might be the issue in here.
Thanks.

Some process is trying to log in to that account using an incorrect password. The guess guess would be that the account is being locked because it's exceeding the number of allowed incorrect logins.
You can unlock the account like below.
ALTER USER USER_NAME ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
Refer ora-28000-the-account-is-locked

Postgres JDBC Issue - No suitable driver found for postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres - JDBC driver already configured on buildpath

I am aware this issue comes up when no proper jdbc driver jar is configured in the build path, I have tried adding a few jdbc jars for postgres, yet I face the issue. Please find the below jars I tried.
Using
postgres : 1.16.1
Eclipse Version: Indigo Service Release 2
Java version : 8
Jars I tried
postgresql-9.4.1208.jre6
postgresql-connector-jdbc4.jar
postgresql-jdbc.jar
postgresql-9.3-1103.jdbc3
postgresql-9.2-1003-jdbc4-sources.jar
pg73jdbc3
jdbc7.1-1.1
Reading other posts on stack overflow, I even tried setting the system environmental variables as below..
User Variables - Admin - classpath
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\lib
System Variable - path
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin
Not sure if this is required
Database details setup in my .properties file
jdbc.driverClassName=org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.url=postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
jdbc.username=admin
jdbc.password=admin
Using spring framework based application
Logs :
org.springframework.transaction.CannotCreateTransactionException: Could not open JDBC Connection for transaction; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager.doBegin(DataSourceTransactionManager.java:240)
at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.getTransaction(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:371)
at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.createTransactionIfNecessary(TransactionAspectSupport.java:335)
at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:105)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
at $Proxy8.getCollegeDetails(Unknown Source)
at com.cts.bo.HESBO.registerCourse(HESBO.java:42)
at com.cts.facade.HESFacade.registerCourse(HESFacade.java:34)
at com.cts.manager.HESManager.registerCourse(HESManager.java:34)
at com.cts.presentation.Tester.registerCourse(Tester.java:66)
at com.cts.presentation.Tester.main(Tester.java:159)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriverManager(DriverManagerDataSource.java:173)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriver(DriverManagerDataSource.java:164)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.getConnectionFromDriver(AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.java:149)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.getConnection(AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.java:119)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager.doBegin(DataSourceTransactionManager.java:202)
... 11 more
Please guide as for what needs to be done.Thanks

You don't add url while filling the database details for postgresql. You instead do the following.
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.postgresql.xa.PGXADataSource">
<property name="user" value="${username}" />
<property name="password" value="${password}" />
<property name="portNumber" value ="${portNumber}" />
<property name="databaseName" value="${databaseName}" />
<property name="serverName" value="${serverName}" />
</bean>
in your application context and
username=yourusername
password=******
portNumber=5432
databaseName=yourdb
serverName=localhost
in your property file.Later ofcourse you need to utilize the datasource bean. Look at the following, https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/publicapi/org/postgresql/xa/PGXADataSource.html.

Spring and Tomcat: Access to DialectResolutionInfo cannot be null when 'hibernate.dialect' not set

I have an application that uses the Spring Repository framework and a MySQL database. I currently have it deployed on Tomcat 7.
Once I deploy and attempt to log into the application (the first call to the database) I receive the following exception:
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in URL [file:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.62/webapps/waypoint/WEB-INF/classes/repository-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.HibernateException: Access to DialectResolutionInfo cannot be null when 'hibernate.dialect' not set
I have enabled query logging on the database and can confirm that a query is being made to the database for a user object. However, on the login page itself, I see the following message:
Your login attempt was not successful, try again.
Reason: could not extract ResultSet; SQL [n/a]; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not extract ResultSet
To make things a bit more confusing, this only happens when I try deploying on a remote server. When I start a local instance of MySQL and run an instance of Tomcat on localhost, everything works as expected.
Below is my repository-context.xml:
<beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
<beans:property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<beans:property name="url"
value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/waypoint_dev" />
<beans:property name="username" value="root" />
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="entityManagerFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<beans:property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
</beans:property>
<!-- spring based scanning for entity classes> -->
<beans:property name="packagesToScan"
value="com.cigna.waypoint.repository, com.cigna.waypoint.core" />
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<beans:property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</beans:bean>
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the problem? Is there a configuration that is needed with Tomcat that I am not aware of, or have forgotten?
Thanks for your help.
=== UPDATE 1 ====
After specifying the dialect, I am receiving the following stack trace:
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
The last packet successfully received from the server was 161,752 milliseconds ago. The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago.
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1036) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3427) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3327) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3814) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2435) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2582) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2530) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:1907) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:2030) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeQuery(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:96) ~[commons-dbcp-1.4.jar:1.4]
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeQuery(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:96) ~[commons-dbcp-1.4.jar:1.4]
at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.ResultSetReturnImpl.extract(ResultSetReturnImpl.java:82) ~[hibernate-core-4.3.6.Final.jar:4.3.6.Final]
... 80 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:2914) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3337) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.33.jar:5.1.33]
... 90 common frames omitted
20:48:32.455 [http-bio-8080-exec-34] DEBUG o.s.s.w.a.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Authentication request failed: org.springframework.security.authentication.InternalAuthenticationServiceException: could not extract ResultSet; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not extract ResultSet

Hibernate needs to know the dialect so that it can connect to the underlying database. You need to set the dialect as org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect for MySQL along with the Datasource definition.
Here is a link which says why you need dialect.

I was able to resolve this issue by working through the steps listed in #Soheil 's answer found here:
Solving a "communications link failure" with JDBC and MySQL
It turns out that all I needed was add the hibernate dialect, as #Dhanush Gopinath suggested, and add the following to my my.cnf file:
interactive_timeout=180
wait_timeout=180
connect_timeout=180
max_connect_errors=9999
skip-name-resolve

Hibernate/MySQL Connection Timeout

I wrote a server-side application that powers a website and multiple mobile clients. I used Hibernate for data access. I later discovered that the app fails after a day! When I checked around online, I found out that its a well know issue with MySQL terminating a "stale" connection after 8 hours. In order to avoid this, I found many suggestions like including ?autoReconnect=true, using c3P0, etc.
Since autoReconnect is officially discouraged (especially in production environment) and also because it didn't have any effect when I applied it, I decided to go for c3p0. Unfortunately, after introducing the c3p0 configuration in my hibernate.cfg.xml file, the application starts throwing a NullPointerException somewhere in my code where I called dbSession.close()
This means that the HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory() actually returns null. I have added the required jars (c3p0-0.9.2-pre2.jar, hibernate-core-3.3.1.GA.jar, hibernate-c3p0-3.3.2.GA.jar, mchange-commons-java-0.2.1.jar and c3p0-oracle-thin-extras-0.9.2-pre2.jar) even though I don't think its all of them that are required.
I've gone through many of the pages that talked about this issue but I'm still not able to set it up properly. Kindly help me with a "beginner-friendly" easy-to-implement, step-by-step procedure for setting up c3p0 with Hibernate. I'm using Hibernate 3.3.6 on JDK 1.6, MySQL 5.5 and I'm developing in Netbeans 7.0.
Here is my hibernate.cfg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/religion_app</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">*****</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">*****</property>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<property name="hibernate.query.factory_class">org.hibernate.hql.classic.ClassicQueryTranslatorFactory</property>
<property name="connection.provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>
<property name="connection.autoReconnect">true</property>
<property name="connection.autoReconnectForPools">true</property>
<property name="connection.is-connection-validation-required">true</property>
<!-- configuration pool via c3p0-->
<property name="c3p0.acquire_increment">1</property>
<property name="c3p0.idle_test_period">120</property> <!-- seconds -->
<property name="c3p0.max_size">100</property>
<property name="c3p0.max_statements">0</property>
<property name="c3p0.min_size">10</property>
<property name="c3p0.timeout">180</property> <!-- seconds -->
<property name="c3p0.preferredTestQuery">select 1;</property>
<!--Mappings go here-->
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
Here is what I got after adding c3p0 (without slf4j):
May 23, 2012 2:42:14 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet LoginChurch threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.pacesolutions.religionapp.services.LoginChurch.processRequest(LoginChurch.java:109)
at com.pacesolutions.religionapp.services.LoginChurch.doPost(LoginChurch.java:138)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:393)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
May 23, 2012 2:45:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet LoginChurch threw exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1516)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1361)
at org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider.<clinit>(C3P0ConnectionProvider.java:52)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)
at org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory.newConnectionProvider(ConnectionProviderFactory.java:73)
at org.hibernate.connection.ConnectionProviderFactory.newConnectionProvider(ConnectionProviderFactory.java:56)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.createConnectionProvider(SettingsFactory.java:414)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:62)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2009)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1292)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:859)
at com.pacesolutions.religionapp.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:23)
at com.pacesolutions.religionapp.services.LoginChurch.processRequest(LoginChurch.java:68)
at com.pacesolutions.religionapp.services.LoginChurch.doPost(LoginChurch.java:143)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:393)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.26 logs.
Most of my Hibernate configuration files where generated by Netbeans. I had the database on ground then I used the Hibernate wizards in Netbeans to generate the configuration files, entity classes and mapping files from it. These were working correctly before I introduced c3p0 (but they fail after 8 hours).
I use Mecurial with my project and reverting the whole project back to a time prior to when I introduced c3p0, it works again (for 8 hours). Even hand-deleting all the c3p0 configurations in hibernate.cfg.xml makes the app work again. What could I be doing wrong?

The jars required for C3P0 configuration are c3p0-0.9.2-pre2.jar & mchange-commons-java-0.2.1.jar. Also, additionally you need to put c3p0.properties in classpath.
Below are the properties, which should be configured while using C3P0 with Hibernate.
hibernate.cfg.xml
<property name="connection.provider_class">
org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">100</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">100</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">100</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">10</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">180</property>
c3p0.properties
You can validate connection on each checkout c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout=true, but this is expensive operation.
Else, you can retry to establish connection periodically.
c3p0.acquireRetryAttempts = 4
c3p0.acquireRetryDelay = 5000
This will retry 4 times with a delay of 5 seconds between each consecutive attempt.

c3p0 has no dependency on SLF4J. If adding that library to your classpath fixed your issue, that is interesting, but not so easy to explain.
A stack trace of the original NPE tomcat logged when you had problems would be helpful. (I'm c3p0's developer.)
Note that c3p0.properties needs to be at the top level of the CLASSPATH of your app, which may not be where other config files are located. c3p0.properties is loaded as a ClassLoader resource.

The bug can be fixed using commercial pooling libraries as suggested above. I used c3p0 exactly as suggested by #NayanWadekar.
Please note that c3p0 is dependent on SLF4J. So after including the c3p0 jars in your classpath, you also have to add SLF4J jars in your classpath. The trick about this thing is that, if those SLF4J jars are not present, the compiler still won't complain, you only get errors after deploying the app.
Also, if you are using Netbeans, avoid creating an SLF4J library from all the jars bundled together here at slf4.org. The reason being that some of the jars are not meant to be used together in the same project. Just use the following two jars alone from the library: slf4j-api-1.6.4.jar and slf4j-jdk14-1.6.4.jar. You can visit www.slf4j.org for details.

Seed data import failed on jboss-javaee6-webapp

I am trying to get a basic Seam 3 webapplication to work and use the jboss-javaee6-webapp to achieve this goal. Using the manual at http://seamframework.org/Documentation/CDIQuickstartForMavenUsers.
However, I am running into some problems which I haven't been able to solve for days. I have basically no experience in JavaEE so the solution is probably really easy.
What I've done? I've simply generated a new maven project based on the supplied archetype and didn't change anything about it. I've installed Eclipse Helios including JBoss Tools and downloaded JBoss 6.0.0 and got Eclipse to deploy the application to the server succesfully.
While deploying, an exception occurs in the example code. To be specific the following exceptions occurs:
09:29:20,712 WARN [seam3-example] Seed data import failed.: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.weld.integration.persistence.JBossJpaServices.resolvePersistenceContext(JBossJpaServices.java:59) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.util.Beans.injectEEFields(Beans.java:781) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean$ManagedBeanInjectionTarget$1$1.proceed(ManagedBean.java:181) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.injection.InjectionContextImpl.run(InjectionContextImpl.java:54) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean$ManagedBeanInjectionTarget$1.work(ManagedBean.java:176) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean$FixInjectionPoint.run(ManagedBean.java:142) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean$ManagedBeanInjectionTarget.inject(ManagedBean.java:170) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ManagedBean.create(ManagedBean.java:339) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.context.unbound.DependentContextImpl.get(DependentContextImpl.java:67) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.getReference(BeanManagerImpl.java:669) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.AbstractReceiverBean.getReceiver(AbstractReceiverBean.java:84) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.ProducerField$1.produce(ProducerField.java:134) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.AbstractProducerBean.create(AbstractProducerBean.java:361) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.builtin.ee.EEResourceProducerField.createUnderlying(EEResourceProducerField.java:170) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.builtin.ee.EEResourceProducerField.access$000(EEResourceProducerField.java:54) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.builtin.ee.EEResourceProducerField$EEResourceCallable.call(EEResourceProducerField.java:80) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.builtin.CallableMethodHandler.invoke(CallableMethodHandler.java:50) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.EnterpriseTargetBeanInstance.invoke(EnterpriseTargetBeanInstance.java:62) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.ProxyMethodHandler.invoke(ProxyMethodHandler.java:125) [:6.0.0.Final]
at org.jboss.weldx.persistence.org$jboss$weld$bean-jboss$classloader:id="vfs:$$$Users$sander$Workspaces$eclipse$web-dev-32$$metadata$$plugins$org$jboss$ide$eclipse$as$core$JBoss_6$0_Runtime_Server1306911969901$deploy$seam3-example$war"-ProducerField-nl$jdi$examples$data$MemberRepositoryProducer$em_$$_WeldProxy.persist(org$jboss$weld$bean-jboss$classloader:id="vfs:$$$Users$sander$Workspaces$eclipse$web-dev-32$$metadata$$plugins$org$jboss$ide$eclipse$as$core$JBoss_6$0_Runtime_Server1306911969901$deploy$seam3-example$war"-ProducerField-nl$jdi$examples$data$MemberRepositoryProducer$em_$$_WeldProxy.java)
at nl.jdi.examples.data.SeedDataImporter.importData(SeedDataImporter.java:51) [:]
...
I've searched for a solution for this exact exception but I could barely find anything about it. This probably means that I've overlooked something very simple. So I've analysed the exception and found the following:
The exception message is from the example code (SeedDataImporter.java:61)
The exception itself (NullPointer) is thrown somewhere in the weld code
The problem seems to be purely persistence related (it can't find the PersistenceContext?)
Since the problem is persistence related, I've tried to change the persistence.xml however this didn't pay out. I think the problem is within the JDNI/Persistence.xml/Server config domain, however I can't be sure.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0" 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_2_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="primary">
<jta-data-source>jdbc/__default</jta-data-source>
<properties>
<!-- Properties for Hibernate (default provider for JBoss AS) -->
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
<property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="false" />
<!-- Properties for EclipseLink (default provider for GlassFish) -->
<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="drop-and-create-tables" />
<property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="FINE" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
Edit:
When I try to deploy the unchanged application to GlassFish 3.1 within Eclipse I get the following error:
cannot Deploy seam3-example
Deployment Error for module: seam3-example: Error occurred during deployment: Exception while loading the app : javax.ejb.CreateException: Initialization failed for Singleton SeedDataImporter. Please see server.log for more details.
Cannot create tables for application seam3-example. The expected DDL file seam3-example_primary_createDDL.jdbc is not available.
Exception [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.2.0.v20110202-r8913): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException
Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLException: Error in allocating a connection. Cause: Connection could not be allocated because: java.net.ConnectException : Error connecting to server localhost on port 1527 with message Connection refused.

I think it is a persistance.xml problem because you have:
<jta-data-source>jdbc/__default</jta-data-source>
and this is default for Glassfish AS
Try this:
<jta-data-source>java:/DefaultDS</jta-data-source>
This is default for JBoss
Do you run JBoss AS in default domain?

If you check the persistence.xml file generated by the archetype, you'll see this comment:
<!-- A matching data source is added to JBoss AS by deploying the project file default-ds.xml -->
<jta-data-source>jdbc/__default</jta-data-source>
Inside resources-jbossas there's a default-ds.xml file that you should deploy to JBoss in order to be able to use the app without any code changes.

At least on the command line I can start the example doing this:
Download and install the latest jboss 6 to
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=jboss-javaee6-webapp -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.weld.archetypes -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.1.CR1 -DarchetypeRepository=central -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=jee-example -Dversion=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
cd jee-example
mvn clean package jboss:hard-deploy -Djboss.home=<jboss-6.0.0.Final>
start the jboss with <jboss-6.0.0.Final>/bin/run.sh (run.bat on Windws)
open http://localhost:8080/jee-example/
For more details have a look at the readme.html that is created by the archtype in the same folder as the pom.xml
To work in eclipse you should install
eclipse for Java EE Developers
m2eclipse from this update site
m2eclipse wtp extension from the m2eclipse-extra update site documentation
I did not try the eclipse part for the archetype...