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Hibernate not creating tables with HSQL and Spring

anybody has idea why hibernate is not creating tables in my example ?
Here's my web.xml - http://pastebin.com/ZaseSaBS
mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml - http://pastebin.com/LbdxMSAb
applicationContext.xml - http://pastebin.com/bAHMaVNX
console logs - http://pastebin.com/tTZZbxkX
I have similiar project with almost the same configuration and everything seems to run just fine on the other project. Any ideas why it's not creating tables here?
I've one test enity in com.calculator.enity with #Entity #GeneratedValue annotations, i have it listed in persistence.xml file. There's also JpaRepository for this entity in com.calculator.repository

It looks like your persistence configuration is not properly done. Use this sample persistence configuration as per your requirement. This is working fine for me.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.xxx.xxx"/>
<tx:annotation-driven />
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactoryBean" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactoryBean"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.xxx.xxx" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
</property>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/test" />
<property name="username" value="postgres" />
<property name="password" value="prateek" />
</bean>
</beans>

Hazelcast Management Center Configuration

I created a Spring, Hibernate, Hazelcast integrated application.
The Spring Config file looks like this:-
SpringDispatcher-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:hz="http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/spring"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/spring
http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/spring/hazelcast-spring-3.0.xsd">
-->
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:hz="http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/spring"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/spring
http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/spring/hazelcast-spring-3.2.xsd">
<hz:hazelcast id="hazelastInstance">
<hz:config>
<hz:group name="dev" password="password" />
<hz:network port="5701" port-auto-increment="false">
<hz:join>
<hz:multicast enabled="false" multicast-group="225.225.225.0"
multicast-port="54327" />
<hz:tcp-ip enabled="true">
<hz:members>192.168.0.101, 192.168.0.104</hz:members>
</hz:tcp-ip>
</hz:join>
</hz:network>
<!-- <hz:map name="map" backup-count="2" max-size="0"
eviction-percentage="30" read-backup-data="true" cache-value="true"
eviction-policy="NONE" merge-policy="com.hazelcast.map.merge.PassThroughMergePolicy" /> -->
</hz:config>
</hz:hazelcast>
<!-- <bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
<property name="configurationClass">
<value>org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration</value>
</property>
</bean> -->
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"></property>
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.last.forms"></property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="show_sql">false</prop>
<prop key="connection.pool_size">1</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/mock_data" />
<property name="username" value="root" />
<property name="password" value="root" />
</bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.last.controllers" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
The various Hazelcast tutorials ask me to copy the following line of code in Hazelcast.xml.
<management-center enabled="true">http://localhost:8080/mancenter-3.2-RC2</management-center>
But I do not use the Hazelcast.xml which I finally found in the Hazelcast package's bin folder.
Instead I copied Hazelcast jars to my lib folder in eclipse.
What configuration will I need to do in my workspace to run the Mancenter Management Center?

Mancenter Management Center is like a stand alone web application. You can deploy its WAR in your web application server and it should run. To make sure it is up and running, try hitting it from your browser. Once that is done, set you hazelcast to connect to it. This is done in hazelcast.xml.
<management-center enabled="true">http://localhost:8080/mancenter-3.2-RC2</management-center>
Your hazelcast.xml should be in your application classpath - otherwise, the default hazelcast.xml will be used.
Also, make sure that mancenter version and hazelcast version match.

Spring Security JDBC and Hibernate JPA

I'm writing a spring webapp that uses spring security with jdbc and jpa/hibernate (I'm 100% newbie with spring). I have made it work by configuring the database either in a "dataSource" bean for spring security and repeating it in persistence.xml. I tried to use the datasource inside the persistence, but I had no luck. How can I reuse my datasource configuration inside persistence.xml? My working configuration is:
datasource.xml:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://host:3306/db"/>
<property name="username" value="user"/>
<property name="password" value="pass"/>
</bean>
persistence.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="GCGastosPersistence">
<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
<class>com.mypackage.MyFirstClass</class>
<class>com.mypackage.MyAnotherClass</class>
<properties>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="user"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="pass"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://host:3306/db"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="none"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.charset" value="utf8"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.charsetEncoding" value="utf8"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.useUnicode" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
Any hint is appreciated.

You can actually ask spring to handle that for you using LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean:
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean" id="entityManagerFactory">
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="persistenceUnit"/>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
Hence you don't need to rewrite your datasource config on persistence.xml. However this is normally used if you container do not already come with its own EntityManagerFactory (eg: tomcat, jetty). Some profiles of JBoss, Glassfish, Websphere have their own EntityManagerFactory.
I have a blog post on setting up spring and jpa if you like to see more, however this is just one of many other method on how you can setup hibernate / JPA.

You can drop your whole persistence.xml and only use the spring context to create your entityManager. It would be something like this...
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.app.domain" />
<property name="persistenceProviderClass" value="org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence"/>
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="persUnit" />
<property name="mappingResources" value="META-INF/orm.xml"/>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props><prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">3</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.fetch_size">50</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">10</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</beans>
--EDIT-- I'm referencing the datasource here but for me it's in another context file. You would need to add yours here as well.
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
<property name="url"
value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mydb" />
<property name="username" value="myuser" />
<property name="password" value="mypasswd/>
</bean>
--EDIT2--
Just leave your persistence.xml empty then. Like...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
</persistence>
then define your JPA properties inside spring.

Spring project how do I access JBoss JNDI Datasources

Below is my current database.xml file for my Spring Project. Can someone please tell me what would have to be changed so I can use a JBoss JNDI datasource in it.. I want to do this so I don't need the config files with the database user and password and url in it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.0.xsd">
<!--
Last changed: $LastChangedDate: 2012-11-19 08:53:13 -0500 (Mon, 19 Nov 2012) $
#author $Author: johnathan.smith#uftwf.org $
#version $Revision: 829 $
-->
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:app.properties" />
<context:component-scan base-package="org.uftwf" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="hibernateTransactionManager" />
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<!-- these are C3P0 properties -->
<property name="acquireIncrement" value="${database.c3p0.acquireIncrement}" />
<property name="minPoolSize" value="${database.c3p0.minPoolSize}" />
<property name="maxPoolSize" value="${database.c3p0.maxPoolSize}" />
<property name="maxIdleTime" value="${database.c3p0.maxIdleTime}" />
<property name="maxIdleTimeExcessConnections" value="${database.c3p0.maxIdleTimeExcessConnections}" />
<property name="numHelperThreads" value="${database.c3p0.numHelperThreads}" />
<property name="unreturnedConnectionTimeout" value="${database.c3p0.unreturnedConnectionTimeout}" />
<property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod" value="300" />
<property name="driverClass" value="${database.driver}" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="${database.url}" />
<property name="user" value="${database.user}" />
<property name="password" value="${database.password}" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>org.uftwf.enrollment.model.Contact</value>
<value>org.uftwf.enrollment.model.Enrollment</value>
<value>org.uftwf.enrollment.model.Member</value>
<value>org.uftwf.enrollment.model.Profile</value>
<value>org.uftwf.enrollment.model.School</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">${hibernate.use_sql_comments}</prop>
<prop key="format_sql">${format_sql}</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="hibernateTransactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
</beans>

I assume you can configure DataSource in JBoss. Notice that you have to define its JNDI name in application server configuration. Once you have the name, simply replace your dataSource bean with:
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiName" value="jdbc/some-name"/>
</bean>
or shortcut:
<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="jdbc/some-name" expected-type="javax.sql.DataSource" />

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

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 :).

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.

I had exactly the same issue...
Commenting out property
<!--property name="generateDdl" value="true"--> in the JpaAdapter,
but setting
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create"/> in persistence.xml
worked for me. I am using hsqldb.
I noticed in the logs that the mode was beign set to update no matter what I set in
persistence.xml.
The value in persistence.xml was actually picked up but never applied.
I am using Spring 3.0.6 and Hibernate 4

Can you try changing the generateDdl property to false on HibernateJpaVendorAdapter in your spring config file.
Seems to conflict with the hibernate hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property
See https://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-6836 for more info.

In My hibernate-default.cfg.xml i used
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
and it worked perfectly, so the config file was as follows
<?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="dialect">
org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</property>
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<!-- When an HQL statement declares a true/false, replace with the standard Y/N -->
<property name="hibernate.query.substitutions">true 'Y', false 'N'</property>
<!-- A useful property do debugging queries. Besure sure it is false or commented out when going PROD -->
<!-- <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property> -->
<!-- Format the printed out SQL generated by Hibernate -->
<property name="hibernate.format_sql">false</property>
<!-- If enabled, Hibernate will collect statistics useful for performance tuning - JMX -->
<property name="hibernate.generate_statistics">false</property>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<mapping class=....

sadly both solutions didn't work for me :(. "hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update" would be also ok, as it should create the tables if they're not present.
It seems that all property settings from the persistence.xml are recognized as username and database provider are set correctly. Sadly the tables aren't created at startup which causes my testcase to fail as the SELECT statement throws an error ...
As you can see, I've set the connection url to use a local file database, which allows me to review the database log after the test run. But the log file is still empty after the test run, even no error is written to it :(.

This worked for me
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem://productDb" />
<property name="username" value="sa" />
<property name="password" value="" />
</bean>
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="generateDdl" value="true" />
<property name="showSql" value="true" />
</bean>
</property>
If I change value to false like this<property name="generateDdl" value="false" /> then I get SqlExceptionHelper:144 - Table not found in statement

Maybe to late, but today I had the same problem when I was writing some tests for a legacy app.
I was using spring 2.5, hibernate3, and HSQL database.
To solve it I changed the database from HSQL to H2 and the datasource from org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource to org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.
The spring-context.xml looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:h2:mem:test"/>
<property name="username" value="sa"/>
<property name="password" value=""/>
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"/>
</property>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven/>
...
</beans>
The persistence.xml looks like:
<?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="TestPU" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
I hope it helps.

In my case, the tables were not been created because the objects annotated with #Table where not annotated as #Entity