Table not found in JPA with MySQL database

Question

I try to create a sample project with JPA, EJB and REST service. Service is working well and I can send Post and GET requests. When I tried to connect insert simple object through EJB, I got table not found error. I tried creating the table manually but it didn't work tr

Here is my Entity class

Employee

@Entity
@Table(name = "employee")
public class Employee implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "emp_id")
    private int empId;

    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "name", nullable = false, length = 63)
    private String name;

    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "email", nullable = false, length = 255)
    private String email;

    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "salary", columnDefinition = "integer default 2500")
    private int salary;

}

persistence.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<persistence xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
    version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
    <persistence-unit name="EmployeePU" transaction-type="JTA">
        <class>com.ams.company.Entity.Employee</class>
        <properties>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver" />
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/company" />
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="root" />
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="" />

            <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="create-tables" />
            <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode"
                value="database" />
            <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation-mode" value="ddl_database_generation" />
        </properties>

    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

EmployeeManager

@Stateless
public class EmployeeManager {
    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "EmployeePU")
    private EntityManager entityManager;

    public EmployeeManager() {
    }

    @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
    public boolean addEmployee(Employee employee) {
        entityManager.persist(employee);

        return true;
    }
}

Answer 1

Solution based on comments above:

When connecting to the MySQL Server, you must use the MySQL JDBC driver .

You can't use the JDBC driver for any other brand of database (the problem in this case was using the Apache Derby JDBC driver).