ERROR: HHH000299: Could not complete schema update java.lang.NullPointerException

Question

I have a web application in the following environment.

• JPA 2.0
• Spring 3.2.2
• MySQL 5.6.11
• Hibernate 4.2.0 CR1
• Apache Tomca

Answer 1

Please check if the table for entity exist.

If it exist then you get error for the below property.

Change it to

This will create the new entity table.