Issues with Oracle JDBC with Hibernate... Sometimes - oracle

Question

I'm having a bit of a unique issue.
I'm able to successfully connect and manage entities when running JUnit tests, but once I start my actual application, I get "Specified JDBC Driver oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver class not found."
What confuses me is that it is there. It works when running my JUnit Tests.
Any insights are appreciated!
hibernate.cfg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory name="db">
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:#host:port/db</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">username</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">password</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.default_schema">db</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<mapping resource="org/entity/RunResultEntity.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="org/entity/TransactionResultEntity.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="org/entity/FailureResultEntity.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
HibernateUtil.java
package org.util;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.hibernate.service.*;
public class HibernateUtil {
private static SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();
private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
try {
// Create the SessionFactory from hibernate.cfg.xml
Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
configuration.configure();
ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = new ServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(
configuration.getProperties()
).buildServiceRegistry();
sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);
return sessionFactory;
} catch (Throwable ex) {
// Exception thrown here!
System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
}
}
public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
return sessionFactory;
}
public static void shutdown() {
// Close caches and connection pools
getSessionFactory().close();
}
}
pom.xml (dependency added to local repository)
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.3.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
log
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.annotations.common.Version <clinit>
INFO: HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {4.0.1.Final}
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.Version logVersion
INFO: HHH000412: Hibernate Core {4.0.1.Final}
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment buildBytecodeProvider
INFO: HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : javassist
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configure
INFO: HHH000043: Configuring from resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
INFO: HHH000040: Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:58 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addResource
INFO: HHH000221: Reading mappings from resource: org/entity/RunResultEntity.hbm.xml
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addResource
INFO: HHH000221: Reading mappings from resource: org/entity/TransactionResultEntity.hbm.xml
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addResource
INFO: HHH000221: Reading mappings from resource: org/entity/FailureResultEntity.hbm.xml
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration doConfigure
INFO: HHH000041: Configured SessionFactory: db
Oct 09, 2014 3:02:59 PM org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
INFO: HHH000402: Using Hibernate built-in connection pool (not for production use!)
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.HibernateException: Specified JDBC Driver oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver class not found
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

Answer 1

I found my problem. Lower in my pom.xml I had this little snippet
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1.Final</version>
<classifier>tests</classifier>
</dependency>
The classifier was only giving access to my test suite. Removing the classifier fixed the issue.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>