How to set up datasource with Spring for HikariCP?

Question

Hi I\'m trying to use HikariCP with Spring for connection pool. I\'m using jdbcTempLate and JdbcdaoSupport.
This is my spring configuration file for datasource:

Answer 1

This last error is caused by the library SLF4J not being found. HikariCP has two dependencies: slf4j and javassist. BTW, HikariDataSource does have a default constructor and does not need HikariConfig, see this link. So that was never the problem.