hi everybody !

I'm quite new to hibernate, so i need a little help with this problem...

I'm trying to connect to a sapdb and this is my hibernate.properties file:

<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:sapdb://localhost/mydb</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">user</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">****</property>
<property name="dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SAPDBDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.minPoolSize">5</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.maxPoolSize">20</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">1800</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statement">50</property>

<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<property name="transaction.factory_class">
net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory
</property>
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class">
net.sf.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider
</property>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>

this is the result i get when i try to run my java application:

1574 [main] DEBUG net.sf.hibernate.connection.DriverManagerConnectionProvider - opening new JDBC connection

1574 [main] ERROR net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate - could not get database metadata

com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.exceptions.JDBCDriverException: SAP DBTech JDBC: Cannot connect to jdbc:sapdb://localhost/mydb [Restart required].

And then my log4j command introduced after configuring the SessionFactory:

1590 [main] INFO EventManager - Hibernate initialized !!

Really i don't know how to fix this problem... I can initialize the SessionFactory without connecting to the database??

Please help!

Thank you.

Correction: the posted file is not hibernate.properties!!

It is hibernate.cfg.xml !!

Sorry...