Connection cannot be null when 'hibernate.dialect' not set

Question

having more issues with seting up hibernate with spring3. this time it is saying that connection is nul as the dialect is not set which it is on my hibernate.cfg.xml file.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Switching from the Apache Commons DataSource:

To C3P0:

made my problem go away. Maybe someone can explain why, I am just happy it works and wanna share what little I know :)