Question

I use Hibernate (through JPA) configured by Spring and when I launch my application (war deployed on Tomcat 6), I get this error:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: Connection cannot be null when 'hibernate.dialect' not set 

It seems strange because I’ve set the hibernate dialect as follows:

p:databasePlatform="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect

For more information, here my full applicationContext.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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.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-3.1.xsd">


    <bean id="dataSource"
          class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"
          p:driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
          p:url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/room_management" p:username="root" p:password=""/>

    <bean id="entityManagerFactory"
          class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
          p:dataSource-ref="dataSource" p:persistenceUnitName="RoomManagement">
        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"
                  p:database="MYSQL"
                  p:databasePlatform="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect"
                  p:showSql="true"/>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager"
          class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
          p:entityManagerFactory-ref="entityManagerFactory"/>

    <context:annotation-config/>


    <context:component-scan base-package="com.parisdescartes.roommanagement.*"/>

    <tx:annotation-driven/>

</beans>

So, I decided to precise Hibernate Dialect within META-INF/persistence.xml file, and this time that works. Here how I precised it:

<properties>
            <property name="hibernate.dialect"
                      value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect"/>
</properties>

Do you have an idea why Hibernate Dialect is not set using Spring configuration ?

Answer 1

Not sure why it won’t work with your configuration. Maybe something goes wrong with using the p: annotation. I’ll post my code (which works for my config) to try if it will fix your code! 🙂

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
        <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
            <property name="showSql" value="false"/>
            <property name="generateDdl" value="true"/>
            <property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect"/>
        </bean>
    </property>
</bean>

Good luck!