Internal HSQL database complains about privileges

Question

I'm setting up a standalone Java service with an in-process, in-memory HSQL database.

Persistence.xml

<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
 version="2.0">

 <persistence-unit name="manager">

 <class>tr.silvercar.data.entities.User</class>
 <properties>
 <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" />
 <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="sa" />
 <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="" />
 <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:testdb" />

 <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" />
 <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3" />

 <!-- cache configuration -->
<!-- 
 <property name="hibernate.ejb.classcache.org.hibernate.ejb.test.Item"
  value="read-write" />
 <property
  name="hibernate.ejb.collectioncache.org.hibernate.ejb.test.Item.distributors"
  value="read-write, RegionName" />
 -->
 </properties>

 </persistence-unit>

</persistence>

Code

  emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("manager");

  User newUser = new User();
  newUser.setName("Testgebruiker");
  newUser.setCredits(100);

  System.out.println("Inserting user");
  EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
  em.persist(newUser);
  em.close();

  System.out.println("Getting user");
  em = emf.createEntityManager();
  User u = (User) em.createQuery("SELECT u FROM User u").getSingleResult();
  em.close();
  System.out.println(u);

It would seem to me that since the database is in memory, and Hibernate should generate tables, that I don't need to do anything else. However, upon calling getSingleResult I get the exception:

org.hsqldb.HsqlException: user lacks privilege or object not found: USER

Answer 1

You need to use Hibernate 3.5.6 or later, together with HSQLDB version 2.2.x or later. Otherwise, older Hibernte jars work with HSQLDB 1.8.x. The name of the table is not a problem. I have developed the dialect and run the Hibernate tests for this version, but Pascal knows a lot more about Hibernate usage than I do and has helped a lot of people here.