I use Hibernate with c3p0.
I had exactly the same problem after an attempt to upgrade from Hibernate 4.1.3 to 4.1.8.
Downgrading back to 4.1.3 solved the problem.
c3p0 version in both cases is the same: 0.9.1.
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