c3p0 hsqldb driver class not found - spring

Question

I am trying to create a simple web service with spring hibernate and maven. when I try to execute the project c3p0 cannot find the driver class. I am trying to connect to HSQLDB as standalone NOT embedded mode.
the error that I get is:
May 02, 2019 12:17:08 PM com.mchange.v2.c3p0.DriverManagerDataSource
WARNING: Could not load driverClass org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1291)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1119)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.DriverManagerDataSource.ensureDriverLoaded(DriverManagerDataSource.java:143)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnection(DriverManagerDataSource.java:173)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:220)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:206)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool$1PooledConnectionResourcePoolManager.acquireResource(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:203)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquire(BasicResourcePool.java:1138)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquireAndDecrementPendingAcquiresWithinLockOnSuccess(BasicResourcePool.java:1125)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.access$700(BasicResourcePool.java:44)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$ScatteredAcquireTask.run(BasicResourcePool.java:1870)
at com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread.run(ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner.java:696)
I validated that the JAR file is there and I created another project with just hibernate and c3p0 and everything is working fine. the problem arises when I include spring.
here is my POM file
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.luv2code.springdemo</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-crm-rest</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<springframework.version>5.0.6.RELEASE</springframework.version>
<hibernate.version>5.4.1.Final</hibernate.version>
<mysql.connector.version>5.1.45</mysql.connector.version>
<c3po.version>0.9.5.2</c3po.version>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Add Jackson for JSON converters -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.9.5</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MySQL -->
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>mysql</groupId> <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>${mysql.connector.version}</version> </dependency> -->
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hsqldb/hsqldb -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- C3PO -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mchange</groupId>
<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
<version>${c3po.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Servlet+JSP+JSTL -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- to compensate for java 9 not including jaxb -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>spring-crm-rest</finalName>
<plugins>
<!-- Builds a Web Application Archive (WAR) file from the project output
and its dependencies. -->
<plugin>
<!-- Add Maven coordinates (GAV) for: maven-war-plugin -->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
here is my config class
#Configuration
#EnableWebMvc
#EnableTransactionManagement
#ComponentScan("com.luv2code.springdemo")
#PropertySource({ "classpath:persistence-mysql.properties" })
public class DemoAppConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
#Autowired
private Environment env;
private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName());
// define a bean for ViewResolver
#Bean
public DataSource myDataSource() {
// create connection pool
ComboPooledDataSource myDataSource = new ComboPooledDataSource();
// set the jdbc driver
try {
myDataSource.setDriverClass(env.getProperty("jdbc.driver"));
}
catch (PropertyVetoException exc) {
throw new RuntimeException(exc);
}
// for sanity's sake, let's log url and user ... just to make sure we are reading the data
logger.info("jdbc.url=" + env.getProperty("jdbc.url"));
logger.info("jdbc.user=" + env.getProperty("jdbc.user"));
// set database connection props
myDataSource.setJdbcUrl(env.getProperty("jdbc.url"));
myDataSource.setUser(env.getProperty("jdbc.user"));
myDataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("jdbc.password"));
// set connection pool props
myDataSource.setInitialPoolSize(getIntProperty("connection.pool.initialPoolSize"));
myDataSource.setMinPoolSize(getIntProperty("connection.pool.minPoolSize"));
myDataSource.setMaxPoolSize(getIntProperty("connection.pool.maxPoolSize"));
myDataSource.setMaxIdleTime(getIntProperty("connection.pool.maxIdleTime"));
return myDataSource;
}
private Properties getHibernateProperties() {
// set hibernate properties
Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", env.getProperty("hibernate.dialect"));
props.setProperty("hibernate.show_sql", env.getProperty("hibernate.show_sql"));
return props;
}
// need a helper method
// read environment property and convert to int
private int getIntProperty(String propName) {
String propVal = env.getProperty(propName);
// now convert to int
int intPropVal = Integer.parseInt(propVal);
return intPropVal;
}
#Bean
public LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory(){
// create session factorys
LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory = new LocalSessionFactoryBean();
// set the properties
sessionFactory.setDataSource(myDataSource());
sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan(env.getProperty("hibernate.packagesToScan"));
sessionFactory.setHibernateProperties(getHibernateProperties());
return sessionFactory;
}
#Bean
#Autowired
public HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
// setup transaction manager based on session factory
HibernateTransactionManager txManager = new HibernateTransactionManager();
txManager.setSessionFactory(sessionFactory);
return txManager;
}
}
and here is my propertis file.
#
# JDBC connection properties
#
jdbc.driver=org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver
jdbc.url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/testdb
jdbc.user=SA
jdbc.password=
#
# Connection pool properties
#
connection.pool.initialPoolSize=5
connection.pool.minPoolSize=5
connection.pool.maxPoolSize=20
connection.pool.maxIdleTime=3000
#
# Hibernate properties
#
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
hibernate.show_sql=true
hibernate.packagesToScan=com.luv2code.springdemo.entity

Answer 1

Remove <scope>test</scope> from your HSQLDB dependency. With scope test, you can only use it in tests, not in normal code. See also What is <scope> under <dependency> in pom.xml for?

Answer 2

Your HSQLDB Dependency in "test" scope, so it will not be carried away when application running. Change test become compile