title: Unable to build entity manager factory - JPA
body: <p>im trying to learn JPA, and i've build a maven project. Now i want to test my JPA classes, but when i try to test I get this error : Unable to build entity manager factory, im really new so tell me when i miss something.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2EPs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2EPs.png" alt="This is my project structure:"></a></p>
  
  <p>my persistence.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>     &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
      &lt;persistence xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
                   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                   xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd"
                   version="2.1"&gt;
  
          &lt;persistence-unit name="JEA6"&gt;
              &lt;provider&gt;org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider&lt;/provider&gt;
              &lt;class&gt;domain.Kweet&lt;/class&gt;
              &lt;class&gt;domain.Trend&lt;/class&gt;
              &lt;class&gt;domain.User&lt;/class&gt;
              &lt;properties&gt;
                  &lt;property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="drop-and-create"/&gt;
                  &lt;property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://*hidden*/&gt;
                  &lt;property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="*hidden*"/&gt;
                  &lt;property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="*hidden*"/&gt;
  
  
  &lt;property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/&gt;
              &lt;property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/&gt;
              &lt;property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/&gt;
              &lt;property name="hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/&gt;
          &lt;/properties&gt;
      &lt;/persistence-unit&gt;
  &lt;/persistence&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My KweetServicesTest</p>
  
  <pre><code>import domain.Kweet
  import domain.User
  import org.testng.annotations.Test
  import service.KweetServices
  
  import javax.persistence.EntityManager
  import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory
  import javax.persistence.Persistence
  
  /**
   * Created by Nick on 08-Mar-17.
   */
  class KweetServicesTest extends GroovyTestCase {
  
  KweetServices service;
  
  private final EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("JEA6");
  EntityManager entityManager;
  User user1;
  User user2;
  
  Kweet tweet1;
  Kweet tweet2;
  
  void setUp() {
      super.setUp()
      entityManager = emf.createEntityManager();
  
      entityManager.getTransaction().begin();
      user1 = new User("user1", "password1", "admin");
      entityManager.persist(user1);
      user2 = new User("user2", "password2", "normal");
      entityManager.persist(user2);
  
      tweet1 = new Kweet("tweet 1", new Date(), user1);
      tweet2 = new Kweet("tweet 2", new Date(), user2);
      entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
  }
  
  void tearDown() {
  
  }
  
  void testCreateUser(){
  service.createUser(user1);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>The error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\bin\java" -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=127.0.0.1:51712,suspend=y,server=n -ea -javaagent:C:\Users\Nick\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\groovyHotSwap\gragent.jar -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "D:\IntelliJ\IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3.4\lib\idea_rt.jar;D:\IntelliJ\IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3.4\plugins\junit\lib\junit-rt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\deploy.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\access-bridge-64.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\cldrdata.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\jaccess.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\jfxrt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\nashorn.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\sunec.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\ext\zipfs.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\javaws.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\jfr.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\jfxswt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\management-agent.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\plugin.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\resources.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\Users\Nick\Documents\JEA6\target\test-classes;C:\Users\Nick\Documents\JEA6\target\classes;C:\Users\Nick\Documents\wildfly-10.1.0.Final\modules\system\layers\base\javax\ejb\api\main\jboss-ejb-api_3.2_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\Documents\wildfly-10.1.0.Final\modules\system\layers\base\javax\servlet\api\main\jboss-servlet-api_3.1_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\Documents\wildfly-10.1.0.Final\modules\system\layers\base\javax\servlet\jsp\api\main\jboss-jsp-api_2.3_spec-1.0.1.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\hibernate\hibernate-entitymanager\5.1.0.Final\hibernate-entitymanager-5.1.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\jboss\logging\jboss-logging\3.3.0.Final\jboss-logging-3.3.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\hibernate\hibernate-core\5.1.0.Final\hibernate-core-5.1.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\hibernate\javax\persistence\hibernate-jpa-2.1-api\1.0.0.Final\hibernate-jpa-2.1-api-1.0.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\javassist\javassist\3.20.0-GA\javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\antlr\antlr\2.7.7\antlr-2.7.7.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\apache\geronimo\specs\geronimo-jta_1.1_spec\1.1.1\geronimo-jta_1.1_spec-1.1.1.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\jboss\jandex\2.0.0.Final\jandex-2.0.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\classmate\1.3.0\classmate-1.3.0.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\dom4j\dom4j\1.6.1\dom4j-1.6.1.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\xml-apis\xml-apis\1.0.b2\xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\hibernate\common\hibernate-commons-annotations\5.0.1.Final\hibernate-commons-annotations-5.0.1.Final.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\mysql\mysql-connector-java\6.0.5\mysql-connector-java-6.0.5.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\javax\javaee-web-api\7.0\javaee-web-api-7.0.jar;D:\IntelliJ\IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3.4\lib\groovy-all-2.4.6.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\junit\junit\3.8.1\junit-3.8.1.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\testng\testng\6.11\testng-6.11.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\com\beust\jcommander\1.64\jcommander-1.64.jar;C:\Users\Nick\.m2\repository\org\yaml\snakeyaml\1.17\snakeyaml-1.17.jar" com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter -ideVersion5 KweetServicesTest
  Connected to the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:51712', transport: 'socket'
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:31 PM org.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper logPersistenceUnitInformation
  INFO: HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
      name: JEA6
      ...]
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:31 PM org.hibernate.Version logVersion
  INFO: HHH000412: Hibernate Core {5.1.0.Final}
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:31 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment &lt;clinit&gt;
  INFO: HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:31 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment buildBytecodeProvider
  INFO: HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : javassist
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:31 PM org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.java.JavaReflectionManager &lt;clinit&gt;
  INFO: HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {5.0.1.Final}
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:32 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
  WARN: HHH10001002: Using Hibernate built-in connection pool (not for production use!)
  Loading class `com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'. This is deprecated. The new driver class is `com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver'. The driver is automatically registered via the SPI and manual loading of the driver class is generally unnecessary.
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:32 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl buildCreator
  INFO: HHH10001005: using driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] at URL [jdbc:mysql://studmysql01.fhict.local/dbi324529]
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:32 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl buildCreator
  INFO: HHH10001001: Connection properties: {user=dbi324529, password=****}
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:32 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl buildCreator
  INFO: HHH10001003: Autocommit mode: false
  Mar 08, 2017 7:01:32 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.PooledConnections &lt;init&gt;
  INFO: HHH000115: Hibernate connection pool size: 20 (min=1)
  
  junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Exception in constructor: testCreateUser (javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to build entity manager factory
      at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:66)
      at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:55)
      at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:39)
      at javax.persistence.Persistence$createEntityManagerFactory.call(Unknown Source)
      at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
      at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
      at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125)
      at KweetServicesTest.&lt;init&gt;(KweetServicesTest.groovy:19)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
      at junit.framework.TestSuite.createTest(TestSuite.java:131)
      at junit.framework.TestSuite.addTestMethod(TestSuite.java:114)
      at junit.framework.TestSuite.&lt;init&gt;(TestSuite.java:75)
      at com.intellij.junit3.TestRunnerUtil.createClassOrMethodSuite(TestRunnerUtil.java:147)
      at com.intellij.junit3.TestRunnerUtil.getTestSuite(TestRunnerUtil.java:81)
      at com.intellij.junit3.JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.java:43)
      at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:51)
      at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:237)
      at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:70)
  Caused by: org.hibernate.service.spi.ServiceException: Unable to create requested service [org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.JdbcEnvironment]
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.createService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:244)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:208)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:189)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.configure(JdbcServicesImpl.java:51)
      at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:94)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:217)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:189)
      at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.handleTypes(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:352)
      at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.complete(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:111)
      at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.metadata(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:848)
      at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:876)
      at org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistenceProvider.java:58)
      ... 20 more
  Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: Error calling Driver#connect
      at org.hibernate.exception.internal.SQLStateConversionDelegate.convert(SQLStateConversionDelegate.java:115)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.BasicConnectionCreator$1$1.convert(BasicConnectionCreator.java:101)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.BasicConnectionCreator.convertSqlException(BasicConnectionCreator.java:123)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverConnectionCreator.makeConnection(DriverConnectionCreator.java:41)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.BasicConnectionCreator.createConnection(BasicConnectionCreator.java:58)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.PooledConnections.addConnections(PooledConnections.java:106)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.PooledConnections.&lt;init&gt;(PooledConnections.java:40)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.PooledConnections.&lt;init&gt;(PooledConnections.java:19)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.PooledConnections$Builder.build(PooledConnections.java:138)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.buildPool(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:110)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.configure(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:74)
      at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:94)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:217)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:189)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.buildJdbcConnectionAccess(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:145)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:66)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:35)
      at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.initiateService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:88)
      at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.createService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:234)
      ... 31 more
  Caused by: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
  
  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:590)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionsMapping.translateException(SQLExceptionsMapping.java:57)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:1606)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.&lt;init&gt;(ConnectionImpl.java:633)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:347)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:219)
      at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverConnectionCreator.makeConnection(DriverConnectionCreator.java:38)
      ... 46 more
  Caused by: com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.CJCommunicationsException: Communications link failure
  
  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
      at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:54)
      at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:93)
      at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:133)
      at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createCommunicationsException(ExceptionFactory.java:149)
      at com.mysql.cj.mysqla.io.MysqlaSocketConnection.connect(MysqlaSocketConnection.java:83)
      at com.mysql.cj.mysqla.MysqlaSession.connect(MysqlaSession.java:122)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:1726)
      at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:1596)
      ... 50 more
  Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: studmysql01.fhict.local
      at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
      at java.net.InetAddress$2.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:928)
      at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1323)
      at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1276)
      at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1192)
      at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1126)
      at com.mysql.cj.core.io.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:179)
      at com.mysql.cj.mysqla.io.MysqlaSocketConnection.connect(MysqlaSocketConnection.java:57)
      ... 53 more
  )
  
      at junit.framework.Assert.fail(Assert.java:47)
      at junit.framework.TestSuite$1.runTest(TestSuite.java:263)
      at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
      at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
      at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
      at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
      at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
      at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
      at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
      at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:116)
      at com.intellij.junit3.JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.doRun(JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.java:113)
      at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:109)
      at com.intellij.junit3.JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit3IdeaTestRunner.java:45)
      at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:51)
      at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:237)
      at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:70)
  
  Disconnected from the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:51712', transport: 'socket'
  
  Process finished with exit code -1
  </code></pre>