I have been trying to get a Vaadin JPA application running and ran into a very vague error message that I have been tracking down.

OpenJPA: ArgumentException: A JDBC Driver or DataSource class name must be specified in the ConnectionDriverName property.

The full error stacktrace I was getting at start-up was:

Caused by: <openjpa-1.2.2-r422266:898935 fatal user error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: A JDBC Driver or DataSource class name must be specified in the ConnectionDriverName property.
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.DataSourceFactory.newDataSource(DataSourceFactory.java:74)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.conf.JDBCConfigurationImpl.createConnectionFactory(JDBCConfigurationImpl.java:784)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.conf.JDBCConfigurationImpl.getDBDictionaryInstance(JDBCConfigurationImpl.java:561)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.MappingRepository.endConfiguration(MappingRepository.java:1344)
at org.apache.openjpa.lib.conf.Configurations.configureInstance(Configurations.java:505)
at org.apache.openjpa.lib.conf.Configurations.configureInstance(Configurations.java:430)
at org.apache.openjpa.lib.conf.PluginValue.instantiate(PluginValue.java:103)
at org.apache.openjpa.conf.MetaDataRepositoryValue.instantiate(MetaDataRepositoryValue.java:68)
at org.apache.openjpa.lib.conf.ObjectValue.instantiate(ObjectValue.java:83)
at org.apache.openjpa.conf.OpenJPAConfigurationImpl.newMetaDataRepositoryInstance(OpenJPAConfigurationImpl.java:863)
at org.apache.openjpa.conf.OpenJPAConfigurationImpl.getMetaDataRepositoryInstance(OpenJPAConfigurationImpl.java:854)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.AbstractBrokerFactory.makeReadOnly(AbstractBrokerFactory.java:638)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.AbstractBrokerFactory.newBroker(AbstractBrokerFactory.java:183)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingBrokerFactory.newBroker(DelegatingBrokerFactory.java:142)
at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.createEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:192)
at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.createEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:145)
at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.createEntityManager(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:56)
... 15 more

I finally tracked down the issue

public class EntityManagerListener implements ServletContextListener {

    ...
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent context) {
        this.factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("com.baselogic.jpa");
    }
    ...
}

The persistence unit that was configured was called “jpa_persistence_unit”
The solution was to change the name of the persistence unit in my persistence.xml like the following (“com.baselogic.jpa”):

<persistence-unit name="com.baselogic.jpa" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">

I could have just changed the persistence unit name in the createEntityManagerFactory(“com.baselogic.jpa”) call, but I chose to keep the standard name and change the persistence.xml.

Hope this can help someone else…

Mick Knutson

Java, JavaEE, J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle, Spring, Maven, Architecture, Design, Mentoring, Instructor and Agile Consulting. http://www.baselogic.com/blog/resume

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