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