I'm currently using the following setup to create a schema in an embedded database before running my tests against it
In my application context
<jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource" type="HSQL">
<jdbc:script location="classpath:createSchema.sql" />
</jdbc:embedded-database>
createSchema.sql
create schema ST_TEST AUTHORIZATION DBA;
hibernate properties
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.default_schema" value="ST_TEST"/>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
<property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments" value="true" />
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="false" />
</properties>
My question is is this the best way to do this. Or can i use a different schema name in my properties? or set the schema name in the jdbc:embedded-database element
By default HSQL creates a schema called PUBLIC. source: HSQL documentation
Seeing as the schema name is never seen in the tests (named queries/entity manager to do the interactions) you can change the hibernate properties to use this PUBLIC schema
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.default_schema" value="PUBLIC"/>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />
</properties>
OR
just leave out the default_schema from the properties list and it uses PUBLIC anyway
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />
</properties>