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