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Shaik Mehboob Mohammed
3,144 Pointsi have provided connection.url property with correct value but this is throwing an error
the error says connection.url is missing or with incorrect value
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver<\property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb::file:./data/treehouse<\property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect<\property>
<\session-factory>
<\hibernate-configuration>
1 Answer
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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,969 PointsYou have two issues
1) Your closing tags should use a forward slash. Ex: </property>
instead of <\property>
2) Your connection.url has an extra colon before the word file. It should be:
jdbc:hsqldb:file:./data/treehouse
instead of
jdbc:hsqldb::file:./data/treehouse