I tried that - I still get the error. I noticed one line in the Tomee startup logs
INFO: Configuring Service(id=Default JDBC Database, type=Resource, provider-id=Default JDBC Database) -- does this mean, it is loading the default Database?? -- View this message in context: http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/MySQL-resource-in-Tomee-1-5-2-tp4665872p4665992.html Sent from the OpenEJB User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.