When our application starts up it can’t seem to connect to the database (using

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When our application starts up it can’t seem to connect to the database (using

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When our application starts up it can’t seem to connect to the database (using JNDI) on websphere 6.1.

There are no errors in the logs until hibernate initializes the connection provider; it hangs for 180 seconds (I’m guessing this is the connection timeout set on the datasource) and then:

[2011-08-19 10:48:27,585] INFO  [SoapConnectorThreadPool : 1] [o.h.c.ConnectionProviderFactory] Initializing connection provider: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider µ
[2011-08-19 10:51:27,628] DEBUG [SoapConnectorThreadPool : 1] [o.h.util.JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Exception com.ibm.websphere.ce.cm.ConnectionWaitTimeoutException: Connection not available, Timed out waiting for 180029
            at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.AdapterUtil.toSQLException(AdapterUtil.java:1362) ~[com.ibm.ws.runtime_6.1.0.jar:na]
            at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.jdbc.WSJdbcDataSource.getConnection(WSJdbcDataSource.java:462) ~[com.ibm.ws.runtime_6.1.0.jar:na]
            at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.jdbc.WSJdbcDataSource.getConnection(WSJdbcDataSource.java:418) ~[com.ibm.ws.runtime_6.1.0.jar:na]
            at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.java:81) ~[spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:113) [hibernate-core-3.6.5.Final.jar:3.6.5.Final]
            at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2863) [hibernate-core-3.6.5.Final.jar:3.6.5.Final]
            at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2859) [hibernate-core-3.6.5.Final.jar:3.6.5.Final]
            at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1870) [hibernate-core-3.6.5.Final.jar:3.6.5.Final]
            at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:860) [spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:779) [spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211) [spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1477) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1417) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:844) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:786) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:703) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:474) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:84) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:282) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1074) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:517) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190) [spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE] :

The database itself is fine (we can connect to it using a db tool) and the same application does work at times without changing any code or configuration. Also, on our local WAS the application runs without issues but here we do use a different oracle.

Any hint or thoughts on the issue are more than welcome.

UPDATE:
After further investigation it seems that the above error is because there are no more connections available in the pool. I don’t know if there is a problem with our code (I would expect Hibernate handles this) or configuration or is there a problem in the websphere setup…

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-24T22:03:59+00:00

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2026-05-24T22:03:59+00:00Added an answer on May 24, 2026 at 10:03 pm

SOLVED

In the end it was a problem with the pool running out of connections; an application (war) inside the ear was missing the Spring’s <tx:annotation-driven ... /> from its context hence a new connection was created for each call to the DB. Adding this solved the problem.

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