All,
I vaguely remember having configured properties 
      for hibernate in the EntityManagerFactory. So I moved the settings you 
      indicated in the spring config.  Things seem to behave slightly 
      differently when I configuring the properties you mention to put  in 
      persistence.xml in the spring configuration.  (More logging (finest), 
      so the settings take only if I put in string config )  However I 
      still have a failure on altering tables and the tables DO NOT 
      exist.
I realize the tomcat logs don't show the info stuff I see on 
      the console.
Anyhow, I will attach my spring config.  
Has 
      anyone gotten spring & eclipselink & ddl generation working 
      together?  Any examples or other ideas?  Likely something silly 
      I am not doing.  
[EL Info]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:20.217--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--EclipseLink, 
      version: Eclipse Persistence Services - 1.1 (B
ild 
      SNAPSHOT-20080901)
[EL Config]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:21.842--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(5262695)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--connecting(DatabaseLogin(
        
      platform=>DerbyPlatform
        
      user name=> ""
        
      connector=>JNDIConnector datasource name=>null
))
[EL Config]: 
      2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.061--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(4052150)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Connected: 
      jdbc:derby://localhost:15
7/digitalart;create=true
        
      User: APP
        Database: Apache 
      Derby  Version: 
10.4.1.3 
      - (648739)
        Driver: Apache 
      Derby Network Client JDBC Driver  Version: 
10.4.1.3 - (648739)
[EL Config]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.061--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(22549381)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--connecting(DatabaseLogin(
        
      platform=>DerbyPlatform
        
      user name=> ""
        
      connector=>JNDIConnector datasource name=>null
))
[EL Config]: 
      2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.061--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(23700826)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Connected: 
      jdbc:derby://localhost:1
27/digitalart;create=true
        
      User: APP
        Database: Apache 
      Derby  Version: 
10.4.1.3 
      - (648739)
        Driver: Apache 
      Derby Network Client JDBC Driver  Version: 
10.4.1.3 - (648739)
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.170--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--sequencing 
      connected, state is Preallocation_Transaction_
oAccessor_State
[EL 
      Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.170--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--sequence 
      : preallocation size 50
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.170--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--sequence 
      SEQ_GEN: preallocation size 50
[EL Info]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.327--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--file:/C:/development/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/webapps/DigitalAr
Web/WEB-INF/lib/da-db-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar-DigitalArtJPA 
      login successful
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.577--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Execute 
      query DataModifyQuery()
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.592--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--reconnecting 
      to external connection pool
[EL Fine]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:26.592--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(23310932)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--CREATE 
      TABLE AUDITLOG (ID BIGINT NOT
ULL, USERNAME VARCHAR(255), SESSIONID 
      VARCHAR(255), ACTION VARCHAR(255), MESSAGE VARCHAR(255), IP VARCHAR(255), 
      USERAGENT VARCHAR(255), TIMESTAMP TIM
STAMP, PRIMARY KEY (ID))
[EL 
      Finest]: 2008.09.03 12:22:27.030--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--The table 
      (AUDITLOG) is created.
[EL Fine]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:39.733--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(16233020)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--CREATE 
      TABLE RATING (ID BIGINT NOT NUL
L, VALUE INTEGER, CONTAINER_ID BIGINT, 
      USERWHOVOTED_ID BIGINT, PRIMARY KEY (ID))
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.170--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--The table (RATING) is 
      created.
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.170--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Execute 
      query DataModifyQuery()
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.170--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--reconnecting 
      to external connection pool
[EL Fine]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.170--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(25626423)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--CREATE 
      TABLE FORUM (ID BIGINT NOT NULL
, NAME VARCHAR(255), GALLERY_ID BIGINT, 
      IMAGE_ID BIGINT, PRIMARY KEY (ID))
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.498--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--The table (FORUM) is 
      created.
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.498--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Execute 
      query DataModifyQuery()
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.498--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--reconnecting 
      to external connection pool
[EL Fine]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.498--ServerSession(18560421)--Connection(26133207)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--ALTER 
      TABLE GROUPS_GROUPS ADD CONSTRAI
NT GRUPSGROUPSGroupID FOREIGN KEY 
      (Group_ID) REFERENCES GROUPS (ID)
[EL Fine]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.733--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--VALUES(1)
[EL 
      Warning]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.811--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Exception 
      [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Service
s - 1.1 (Build 
      SNAPSHOT-20080901)): 
      org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException
Internal 
      Exception: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: 'ALTER TABLE' cannot be 
      performed on 'GROUPS_GROUPS' because it does not exist.
Error Code: 
      -1
Call: ALTER TABLE GROUPS_GROUPS ADD CONSTRAINT GRUPSGROUPSGroupID 
      FOREIGN KEY (Group_ID) REFERENCES GROUPS (ID)
Query: 
      DataModifyQuery()
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.842--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--Execute 
      query DataModifyQuery()
[EL Finest]: 2008.09.03 
      12:22:40.842--ServerSession(18560421)--Thread(Thread[main,5,main])--reconnecting 
      to external connection 
    pool