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Error creating bean with name "datasource" defined in servlet context resource [WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]

I am doing an example how to integrate struts2 and spring. I used spring jdbc template.
I am getting an exception when creating the dataSource bean. Could someone help on this.
Eclipse console
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Error setting property values; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'driverClassName' threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not load JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.driver]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.driver
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1279)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1010)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:472)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:429)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:728)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:380)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4705)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'driverClassName' threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not load JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.driver]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.driver
at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:104)
at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:59)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1276)
... 31 more
Jan 10, 2014 11:47:15 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
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 'dataSource' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Error setting property values; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'driverClassName' threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not load JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.driver]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.driver
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1279)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1010)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:472)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:429)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:728)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:380)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4705)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'driverClassName' threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not load JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.driver]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.driver
at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:104)
at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:59)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1276)
... 31 more
Jan 10, 2014 11:47:15 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
applicatinContext.xml
<beans 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-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="studentDAOImpl" class="com.tech.daoImpl.StudentDAOImpl" />
<bean id="studentAction" class="com.tech.action.StudentAction">
<property name="studentDAO" ref="studentDAOImpl" />
</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:3306/CD-UKUMARA" />
<property name="username" value="root" />
<property name="password" value="root123" />
</bean>
<bean id="studentDAO" class="com.tech.dao.StudentDAO">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
</beans>
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>TechCollection</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<!-- <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class> -->
<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class>
<!-- <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class> -->
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
</web-app>
Thank you.

It's com.mysql.jdbc.Driver - check the capitalization.

TomEE ++ and ObjectDB can not get it work

I have a DaoService which gets initialized when the app starts.
public DaoService() {
Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
properties.put("javax.persistence.jdbc.user", "admin");
properties.put("javax.persistence.jdbc.password", "admin");
factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("$objectdb/db/points.odb", properties);
//exception!
}
But everytime it fires this exception:
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Explicit persistence provider error(s) occurred for "$objectdb/db/points.odb" after trying the following discovered implementations: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl, com.objectdb.jpa.Provider from provider: com.objectdb.jpa.Provider
at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.el.ContextAwareTagMethodExpression.invoke(ContextAwareTagMethodExpression.java:108)
at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:68)
at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:120)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastAll(UIViewRoot.java:1028)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:286)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._process(UIViewRoot.java:1375)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:752)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(InvokeApplicationExecutor.java:38)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:170)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:117)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:197)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.primefaces.webapp.filter.FileUploadFilter.doFilter(FileUploadFilter.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBValve.invoke(OpenEJBValve.java:45)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:936)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1004)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:589)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: javax.el.ELException: javax.ejb.EJBException: The bean encountered a non-application exception; nested exception is:
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Explicit persistence provider error(s) occurred for "$objectdb/db/points.odb" after trying the following discovered implementations: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl, com.objectdb.jpa.Provider from provider: com.objectdb.jpa.Provider
at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:291)
at org.apache.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:274)
at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.el.ContextAwareTagMethodExpression.invoke(ContextAwareTagMethodExpression.java:96)
... 30 more
Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: The bean encountered a non-application exception; nested exception is:
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Explicit persistence provider error(s) occurred for "$objectdb/db/points.odb" after trying the following discovered implementations: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl, com.objectdb.jpa.Provider from provider: com.objectdb.jpa.Provider
at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.BaseEjbProxyHandler.convertException(BaseEjbProxyHandler.java:363)
at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.BaseEjbProxyHandler.invoke(BaseEjbProxyHandler.java:283)
at $Proxy110.loginUser(Unknown Source)
at net.heatboxes.core.service.AuthorizationService.logIn(AuthorizationService.java:42)
at net.heatboxes.core.bean.view.Login.submit(Login.java:49)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:278)
... 32 more
Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Explicit persistence provider error(s) occurred for "$objectdb/db/points.odb" after trying the following discovered implementations: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl, com.objectdb.jpa.Provider from provider: com.objectdb.jpa.Provider
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createPersistenceException(Persistence.java:244)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:186)
at net.heatboxes.dao.DaoService.<init>(DaoService.java:42)
at net.heatboxes.dao.DaoService.getInstance(DaoService.java:27)
at net.heatboxes.core.service.StatelessService.getDaoService(StatelessService.java:22)
at net.heatboxes.core.service.impl.AuthenticationServiceImpl.loginUser(AuthenticationServiceImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext$Invocation.invoke(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:181)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext.proceed(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:163)
at net.heatboxes.core.interseptors.AccessControlInterceptor.interceptor(AccessControlInterceptor.java:32)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext$Invocation.invoke(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:181)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext.proceed(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:163)
at org.apache.openejb.cdi.CdiInterceptor.invoke(CdiInterceptor.java:126)
at org.apache.openejb.cdi.CdiInterceptor.access$000(CdiInterceptor.java:42)
at org.apache.openejb.cdi.CdiInterceptor$1.call(CdiInterceptor.java:63)
at org.apache.openejb.cdi.CdiInterceptor.aroundInvoke(CdiInterceptor.java:69)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor54.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext$Invocation.invoke(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:181)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext.proceed(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:163)
at org.apache.openejb.monitoring.StatsInterceptor.record(StatsInterceptor.java:176)
at org.apache.openejb.monitoring.StatsInterceptor.invoke(StatsInterceptor.java:95)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor53.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext$Invocation.invoke(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:181)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.ReflectionInvocationContext.proceed(ReflectionInvocationContext.java:163)
at org.apache.openejb.core.interceptor.InterceptorStack.invoke(InterceptorStack.java:138)
at org.apache.openejb.core.stateful.StatefulContainer.businessMethod(StatefulContainer.java:673)
at org.apache.openejb.core.stateful.StatefulContainer.invoke(StatefulContainer.java:378)
at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.EjbObjectProxyHandler.synchronizedBusinessMethod(EjbObjectProxyHandler.java:246)
at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.EjbObjectProxyHandler.businessMethod(EjbObjectProxyHandler.java:241)
at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.EjbObjectProxyHandler._invoke(EjbObjectProxyHandler.java:83)
at org.apache.openejb.core.ivm.BaseEjbProxyHandler.invoke(BaseEjbProxyHandler.java:279)
... 40 more
Caused by: com.objectdb.o._PersistenceException: Failed to validate xml file C:\!heatboxes-web\build\web\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\persistence.xml:
at com.objectdb.o._PersistenceException.b(_PersistenceException.java:45)
at com.objectdb.jpa.Provider.createEntityManagerFactory(Provider.java:87)
at com.objectdb.jpa.Provider.createEntityManagerFactory(Provider.java:32)
at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:152)
... 80 more
Caused by: com.objectdb.o.UserException: Failed to validate xml file C:\!heatboxes-web\build\web\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\persistence.xml:
at com.objectdb.o.MSG.d(MSG.java:74)
at com.objectdb.o.XMD.n(XMD.java:217)
at com.objectdb.o.XMD.k(XMD.java:155)
at com.objectdb.o.UNM$z._e(UNM.java:182)
at com.objectdb.o.UNM$z.<init>(UNM.java:169)
at com.objectdb.o.UNM.x(UNM.java:105)
at com.objectdb.o.UNM.w(UNM.java:75)
at com.objectdb.jpa.Provider.createEntityManagerFactory(Provider.java:56)
... 82 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:623)
at com.objectdb.o.XMD.n(XMD.java:200)
... 88 more
I tried with and without this persistence.xml
<?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="my-pu">
<description>My Persistence Unit</description>
<provider>com.objectdb.jpa.Provider</provider>
<class>net.heatboxes.dao.entity.UserEntity</class>
<properties>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url"
value="my.odb"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="admin"/>
<property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="admin"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Finally I've got it. I should not use any persistence.xml at all. When I do not use it, I got this error:
HTTP Status 500 -
org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: A JDBC Driver or
DataSource class name must be specified in the ConnectionDriverName
property. Available properties in configuration are
"org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.conf.JDBCConfigurationImpl#fdaf18ee".
openjpa conflicts with existing JPA of my objectdb.jar.
To avoid it, I removed openjpa-asm-shaded-X.X.X.jar from my TomEE/lib folder.
Summarize
Only:
Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("$objectdb/db/painInTheAss.odb");
for EntityManagerFactory
Only:
objectdb-ee.jar
for objectdb library in dependencies.
Only without:
openjpa-asm-shaded-X.X.X.jar
in TomEE/lib
Netbeans could still create persistance.xml for you which will break everything.
if you still not successful and use NetBeans, clear its cache, in C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache
You may look in YOURPROJECT\nbproject\project.properties to see some old malformed settings you played around and leaved as it is.

ERROR: org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbcDriver'

I'm trying to configurate a Java MVC webapp with Spring and Hibernate, and MySQL database, but when I run the server I have this error, and I don't know what's the problem.
WARN : org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: null
ERROR: org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbcDriver'
WARN : org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory - Could not obtain connection to query metadata
org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbcDriver'
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1136)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:880)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.java:81)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:114)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2163)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2159)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1383)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:860)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:779)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:546)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:872)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4797)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbcDriver
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1713)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1558)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1130)
... 33 more
ERROR: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.HibernateException: 'hibernate.dialect' must be set when no Connection available
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:546)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:872)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4797)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: 'hibernate.dialect' must be set when no Connection available
at org.hibernate.dialect.resolver.DialectFactory.buildDialect(DialectFactory.java:107)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:138)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2163)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2159)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1383)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:860)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:779)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 22 more
jul 28, 2013 12:26:19 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Excepción enviando evento inicializado de contexto a instancia de escuchador de clase org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.HibernateException: 'hibernate.dialect' must be set when no Connection available
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1412)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:546)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:872)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4797)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5291)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: 'hibernate.dialect' must be set when no Connection available
at org.hibernate.dialect.resolver.DialectFactory.buildDialect(DialectFactory.java:107)
at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:138)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2163)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2159)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1383)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:860)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:779)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1409)
... 22 more
I don't know where could be the error. This is my applicationContext.xml. The error seems to be in dataSource bean.
<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<!-- holding properties for database connectivity /-->
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
<!-- enabling annotation driven configuration /-->
<context:annotation-config/>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}"/>
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<!-- Scans the classpath of this application for #Components to deploy as beans -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.companyname.springapp.repository" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.companyname.springapp.service" />
</beans>
And this is my jdbc.properties
hibernate.generate_statistics = true
hibernate.show_sql = true
jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbcDriver
jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/baseDeDatos
jdbc.username=miUsuario
jdbc.password=miContrasena
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
I have all this jar to load the classes. Something of them (like jpa-api.jar) I think it's not neccesary and others are repeated, but I had it in other project from which I begin to make this, and I didn't remove it yet:
activation-1.1.jar
antlr-2.7.7.jar
aopalliance-1.0.jar
c3p0-0.9.1.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
commons-pool-1.6.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations-3.2.0.Final.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations-4.0.1.Final.jar
hibernate-core-3.5.3-Final.jar
hibernate-core-4.1.8.Final.jar
hibernate-entitymanager-4.1.8.Final.jar
hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar
hibernate-validator-4.0.2.GA.jar
hibernate3.jar
javassist-3.15.0-GA.jar
javax.mail.jar
jaxb-api-2.1.jar
jaxb-impl-2.1.3.jar
jboss-logging-3.1.0.GA.jar
jboss-transaction-api_1.1_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar
jpa-api-2.0-cr-1.jar
jstl-1.2.jar
junit-4.8.1.jar
log4j-1.2.14.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.25.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.jar
org.apache.commons.dbcp.jar
org.springframework.orm.jar
postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar
servlet-api-2.5.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.11.jar
slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.11.jar
spring-aop-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-asm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-beans-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-context-support-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-core-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-expression-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-jdbc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-orm-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-tx-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-web-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
spring-webmvc-3.0.2.RELEASE.jar
stax-api-1.0-2.jar
validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar
Someone can help me with this trouble? I run it in Eclipse with Tomcat 7.
Thanks!

You've got the wrong driver name here:
jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbcDriver
It should be:
jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Note the . between jdbc and Driver.
The way to diagnose similar things is to look at the class that it couldn't find:
Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbcDriver'
That already looks suspicious as the name jdbcDriver doesn't follow Java naming conventions. So at that point you then double-check what it should really be - e.g. by looking in the jar file - and fix the configuration.
As noted in comments, I don't think it's a good idea to have multiple versions of the same jar file on the classpath though - I can't see that ending well.

I had this issue and it turned out to be that my .properties file had a pair of "\t\t" at the end of the driverClassName value. But when the error would print out it didn't show the tabs. I eventually found this as I walked through a lengthy debugging trek.
So if someone finds this on SO and you've got the above problem, check your .prop file, make sure there's nothing odd at the end of the values.

How to configure jndi in tomcat regarding my errors?

I have searched on google and stackoverflow for this problem there are several questions but not resulting to particular solution and reason behind the cause. I am doing a project in JSF with context for my project defined in C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.32\conf\Catalina\localhost\.
Also my in my web.xml I have following configuration:
<context-param>
<description>Database server name</description>
<param-name>DATABASE</param-name>
<param-value>MYSQL</param-value>
</context-param>
<resource-ref>
<description>DB Connection</description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/MySqlDS</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
Now The context file for this project is as follows:
<Context path="/SMS" debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
<Resource name="jdbc/MySqlDS" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource" removeAbandoned="true"
removeAbandonedTimeout="30" maxActive="100"
maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="root"
password=""
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/rosebud"/>
</Context>
The code in my controller is :
InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext();
Context envContext = (Context)initialContext.lookup("java:/comp/env");
javax.sql.DataSource ds = (javax.sql.DataSource) envContext.lookup("jdbc/MySqlDS");
java.sql.Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
Here is my stacktrace:
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException:
Cannot create JDBC driver of class ''
for connect URL 'null' at
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1452)
at
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1371)
at
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1044)
at
com.isys.common.navigation.dao.mysql.TmpNavDAOMySql.getConnection(TmpNavDAOMySql.java:91)
at
com.isys.common.navigation.dao.mysql.TmpNavDAOMySql.populateModels(TmpNavDAOMySql.java:114)
at
com.isys.common.navigation.dao.mysql.TmpNavDAOMySql.populateNavModules(TmpNavDAOMySql.java:19)
at
com.isys.common.navigation.dao.mysql.TmpNavDAOMySqlImpl.populateNavModules(TmpNavDAOMySqlImpl.java:11)
at
com.isys.common.navigation.controller.TmpNavGenerator.init(TmpNavGenerator.java:12)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4420)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4733)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown
Source) at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown
Source) at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown
Source) at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException at
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.getProtocol(Unknown
Source) at
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.knownURL(Unknown
Source) at
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.acceptsURL(Unknown
Source) at
java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(Unknown
Source) at
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1437)
... 24 more
The configuration works fine if I run tomcat from outside eclipse but fails when ran from inside eclipse. What might be the cause?

Look at the root cause of the exception:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.getProtocol(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.knownURL(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.acceptsURL(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1437)
... 24 more
This NPE is clearly a bug in the Sun JDBC ODBC bridge driver. It should have handled it more gracefully or have thrown a more self-explaining exception.
But it is at its own a bigger problem that the Tomcat datasource manager is using the Sun JDBC ODBC bridge driver instead of the MySQL JDBC driver which you specified in the driverClassName of the <Resource>! This means that the <Resource> is not correctly been found/interpreted by Tomcat at all. You should be placing the context.xml file in the /META-INF folder of your webapp. Or you should be putting the <Resource> inside the <Context> of the tomcat/conf/context.xml file.

Exception while deploying my JPA-application to Websphere 7

I have problems deploying a web application to the most recent version of IBM Websphere 7.
The exception is caused during the JPA initialization.
The application is using servlet 2.5, eclipselink 2.1.3, java 6 update 25.
persistence.xml is using version 1.0
I am unsure, if this exception is caused by a bug/configuration error in Websphere or by my application. Maybe it's also related to eclipselink.
UPDATE
Our application does not use JNDI for providing datasources to EclipseLink. Our application passes the DataSource directly to EclipseLink (using EclipseLink specific EntityManager properties)
The persistence.xml I am using is (leaving out all entity definitions and tuning properties):
<?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="default" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
<non-jta-data-source></non-jta-data-source>
<class>my.applications.entity.classes.A</class>
<!-- other class definitions follow -->
<properties>
<property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="FINEST" />
<!-- some other properties, not related to datasources/connections/JNDI
follow -->
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
Here comes the System.err output:
com.ibm.ws.exception.RuntimeWarning: com.ibm.ws.metadata.MetaDataException: CWWJP0018E: Incorrect syntax or error detected in /path/to/my/project/my_application_war.ear/my_application.war/WEB-INF/classes/ for application my_application_war module my_application.war. The following associated error occurred:
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAApplInfo.processModulePUs(JPAApplInfo.java:185)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAComponentImpl.startingDeployedModule(JPAComponentImpl.java:895)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAComponentImpl.stateChanged(JPAComponentImpl.java:748)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.stateChanged(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1075)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectEvent(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1302)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.setState(DeployedModuleImpl.java:221)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:607)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:944)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:726)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl$1.run(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1268)
at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAs(ContextManagerImpl.java:4588)
at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAsSystem(ContextManagerImpl.java:4766)
at com.ibm.ws.security.core.SecurityContext.runAsSystem(SecurityContext.java:255)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplicationDynamically(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1273)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2045)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:441)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:123)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:384)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.startCompositionUnit(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:655)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.startCompositionUnit(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:617)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:37)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor27.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:244)
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invokeMethod(RequiredModelMBean.java:1074)
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.invoke(RequiredModelMBean.java:955)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:761)
at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl$1.run(AdminServiceImpl.java:1332)
at com.ibm.ws.security.util.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:118)
at com.ibm.ws.management.AdminServiceImpl.invoke(AdminServiceImpl.java:1225)
at com.ibm.ws.management.commands.AdminServiceCommands$InvokeCmd.execute(AdminServiceCommands.java:251)
at com.ibm.ws.console.core.mbean.MBeanHelper.invoke(MBeanHelper.java:239)
at com.ibm.ws.console.appdeployment.ApplicationDeploymentCollectionAction.execute(ApplicationDeploymentCollectionAction.java:564)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(Unknown Source)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:738)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1657)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1597)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:104)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:77)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:908)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:934)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:502)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:179)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:353)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.isclite.container.controller.InformationController.processForwardConfig(InformationController.java:217)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(Unknown Source)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:738)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1657)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1597)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:131)
at com.ibm.ws.console.core.servlet.WSCUrlFilter.setUpCommandAssistence(WSCUrlFilter.java:933)
at com.ibm.ws.console.core.servlet.WSCUrlFilter.continueStoringTaskState(WSCUrlFilter.java:500)
at com.ibm.ws.console.core.servlet.WSCUrlFilter.doFilter(WSCUrlFilter.java:321)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:188)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:116)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:77)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:908)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:934)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:502)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:179)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.CacheServletWrapper.handleRequest(CacheServletWrapper.java:91)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:864)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1583)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:186)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:452)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:511)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.processRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:305)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback.complete(HttpICLReadCallback.java:83)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.requestComplete(WorkQueueManager.java:557)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.attemptIO(WorkQueueManager.java:607)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager.workerRun(WorkQueueManager.java:984)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.WorkQueueManager$Worker.run(WorkQueueManager.java:1069)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1604)
Caused by: com.ibm.ws.metadata.MetaDataException: CWWJP0018E: Incorrect syntax or error detected in path/to/my/project/my_application_war.ear/my_application.war/WEB-INF/classes/ for application my_application_war module my_application.war. The following associated error occurred:
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPxmlInfo.extractPersistenceUnits(JPAPxmlInfo.java:449)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAScopeInfo.processPersistenceUnit(JPAScopeInfo.java:140)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAApplInfo.processModulePUs(JPAApplInfo.java:169)
... 90 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.ibm.ws.naming.jndicos.CNContextImpl cannot be cast to javax.sql.DataSource
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPUnitInfo.getJPADataSource(JPAPUnitInfo.java:493)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPUnitInfo.getNonJtaDataSource(JPAPUnitInfo.java:577)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPUnitInfo.createEntityManagerFactory(JPAPUnitInfo.java:1314)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPxmlInfo.extractPersistenceUnits(JPAPxmlInfo.java:393)
... 92 more

The empty non-jta-data-source is causing WebSphere Application Server to perform a lookup(""), which returns the root context, which it then attempts to cast to DataSource.
Container-managed JPA is designed for the container to acquire the data source and pass it to the EM itself. I would recommend that you either specify your data source in persistence.xml, or just disable container-managed JPA altogether to avoid the error during application start:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM26361

Websphere seems to be validating your data-source value in your persistence.xml, and it seems to be invalid. You need to specify a valid value, even if you are overriding it later.
Please include your persistence.xml. You could also try not setting a data-source, or using resource_local if it does not allow no data-source.

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.ibm.ws.naming.jndicos.CNContextImpl cannot be cast to javax.sql.DataSource
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPUnitInfo.getJPADataSource(JPAPUnitInfo.java:493)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPUnitInfo.getNonJtaDataSource(JPAPUnitInfo.java:577)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPUnitInfo.createEntityManagerFactory(JPAPUnitInfo.java:1314)
at com.ibm.ws.jpa.management.JPAPxmlInfo.extractPersistenceUnits(JPAPxmlInfo.java:393)
... 92 more
In your EAR config you have set a JNDI context where there should be a JNDI DataSource