Re: [xwiki-users] XE Installation with PostgreSQL or HSQLDB Succeeds. With MySQL Fails.

17 Aug 2009

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I discovered that I needed to use a later version of the MySQL  
connector, from the Maven repository, rather than the version of the  
connector from the MySQL site, even though that version matched my  
version of MySQL.
I have XEM 1.7.3 working with:
Tomcat 5.5.25 (-5ubuntu1.2)
MySQL 5.0.51a (-3ubuntu5.4)
Java 1.6.0_14
and mysql-connector-java-5.1.8-bin.jar from http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/ .

For a while I was getting the same error and stack trace, but I had the database name referenced incorrectly in hibernate.cfg.xml .

Trevor