I'm hitting 'SQLException: You cannot set autocommit during a managed transaction!' while enabling hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto

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Issue

  • Using Hibernate with CMT and 'hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto' set to update following SQLExcetion is raised at startup

    2010-05-05 14:29:28,259 ERROR [org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate] (EJB-Timer-1273062558598[target=jboss.j2ee:jar=....jar,name=Runner,service=EJB3]) could not complete schema update
    java.sql.SQLException: You cannot set autocommit during a managed transaction!
            at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.BaseWrapperManagedConnection.setJdbcAutoCommit(BaseWrapperManagedConnection.java:598)
            at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedConnection.setAutoCommit(WrappedConnection.java:459)
            at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SuppliedConnectionProviderConnectionHelper.prepare(SuppliedConnectionProviderConnectionHelper.java:60)
            at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate.execute(SchemaUpdate.java:168)
            at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:355)
            at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1341)
    

Environment

  • Hibernate (all versions)

  • Container Managed Transaction (CMT)

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