Unable to build EntityManagerFactory with not-JTA Datasource ------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-7099 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7099 Project: Hibernate ORM Issue Type: Bug Components: entity-manager Affects Versions: 4.1.0, 4.0.1 Environment: Tomcat 7, Java 7, Hibernate 4.x, Servlet 3.0 Reporter: Wilson Horstmeyer Bogado Attachments: HibernateTest.zip When upgrading from Hibernate 3.6.x to Hibernate 4.x it is not possible to create an entity manager factory using a non-JTA Datasource in persistence.xml. When looking up the datasource with JNDI a "javax.naming.NamingException: This context must be accessed through a java: URL" exception is thrown. Debugging the source code we can see that in 3.6.x the lookup is done with "javax.naming.lookup(String)" but in 4.x it is done with "javax.naming.lookup(Name)" which fails. The attached file is a test case. To reproduce, do the following: 1. Build the project with Maven 2. Deploy to Tomcat 3. Go to /hibernate-test/test Result: All database records are shown in browser Now, in pom.xml file, change hibernate.core.version property from 3.6.10.Final to 4.1.0.Final. Repeat above steps. Result: an exception stack trace is displayed which ends with: Caused by: javax.naming.NamingException: This context must be accessed through a java: URL at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.parseName(SelectorContext.java:776) at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.lookup(SelectorContext.java:135) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:415) at org.hibernate.service.jndi.internal.JndiServiceImpl.locate(JndiServiceImpl.java:65) ... 42 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira