I just set up my first Hibernate project using Derby and it seems to work except I get this error:

1 [main] ERROR org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate - could not get database metadata
java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Schema 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA' does not exist

If I comment this out in my Hibernate.cfg.xml file then I don't get an error message, but what are the side effects of doing this? Is there a better way to handle this issue?

<!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<!-- THIS CREATES AN ERROR WITH DERBY
-->

Found it: I wasn't using the Derby dialect.