It took me some time to collect the hibernate.cfg.xml data which is necessary for Derby, Oracle and H2. So here are the default settings for those databases:

Apache Derby (network)

You start the network server and specify the following options in the script:

Linux: DERBY_OPTS=”-Dij.driver=org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver -Dij.protocol=jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/ -Dij.user=admin -Dij.password=admin”Windows: set DERBY_OPTS=”-Dij.driver=org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver -Dij.protocol=jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/ -Dij.user=admin -Dij.password=admin”

<property name=”hibernate.connection.driver_class”>org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.url”>jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/databaseName;create=true</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.username”>admin</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.password”>admin</property><!– no schema necessary –><property name=”hibernate.dialect”>org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect</property>

Oracle(Thin) 

<property name=”hibernate.connection.driver_class”>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.url”>jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:1521:databaseName</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.username”>YOURSCHEMA</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.password”>YOURPASSWORD</property><property name=”hibernate.default_schema”>YOURSCHEMA</property><property name=”hibernate.dialect”>org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>

H2

<property name=”hibernate.connection.driver_class”>org.h2.Driver</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.url”>jdbc:h2:path\databaseName</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.username”>sa</property><property name=”hibernate.connection.password”></property><property name=”hibernate.default_schema”>PUBLIC</property><property name=”hibernate.dialect”>org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect</property>

To make it complete here are the Maven settings for the databases:

Apache Derby (network)

<dependency><groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId><artifactId>derbyclient</artifactId><version>10.4.2.0</version></dependency>

Oracle (thin)

No public version is available but you could install the jar file into your local repository or into an archiva repository via:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dversion=11.1.0.7.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file 

<dependency><groupId>com.oracle</groupId><artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId><version>11.1.0.7.0</version></dependency>

H2