Hibernate c3p0 and Spring. Invalid property 'driverClassName' of bean class [org.hibernate.c3p0.internal.C3P0ConnectionProvider] - spring

Question

I'm currently developing an application that uses hibernate and Spring MVC.
I want to implement c3p0 but I can't understand how to implement it.
I used the c3p0 jars in the optional folder, Hibernate-c3p0-5.0.2.jar and
c3p0-0.9.2.1.jar.
These are my configurations.
Right now, I'm using DriverManagerDatasource from Spring.
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<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>
I tried doing this
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.hibernate.c3p0.internal.C3P0ConnectionProvider">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
<!-- C3P0 Config -->
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment" value="1" />
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period" value="100" />
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size" value="10" />
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements" value="10" />
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size" value="10" />
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout" value="100" />
</bean>
but i'm getting an error.
Invalid property 'driverClassName' of bean class [org.hibernate.c3p0.internal.C3P0ConnectionProvider]
TIA.

Answer 1

driverClassName is a DriverManagerDataSource property, not a property on the C3P0ConnectionProvider. So that's why you're getting the error.
Instead of using the Spring DriverManagerDataSource, which is just a simple DataSource implementation and not a connection pool at all, you want to use C3P0's DataSource implementation. Try using ComboPooledDataSource. That implementation also has a driverClassName property, which you will want to set equal to your database driver (like MySQL driver or whatever).
Here's an example that I lifted off a web page:
cpds = new ComboPooledDataSource();
cpds.setDriverClass("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); //loads the jdbc driver
cpds.setJdbcUrl("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test");
cpds.setUser("root");
cpds.setPassword("root");
That's not Spring, but just make the adjustment to put it in Spring. The full class name is com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource. You can see a Spring-based example here.

Answer 2

i know this question is old but for the newbies, hope it helps.
The problem is with your name tags
replace:
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.hibernate.c3p0.internal.C3P0ConnectionProvider">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
with
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.hibernate.c3p0.internal.C3P0ConnectionProvider">
<property name="driverClass" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="user" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
...
Please note: driverClass is used instead of driverClassName, jdbcUrl is used instead of url, user is used instead of username and password is at it was..... these are the parameters for ComboPooledDataSource
HOPE IT HELPS