Tomcat does not find H2 in-memory database

For testing purposes, I'm trying to use hibernate with an h2 in-memory database. I'm using Maven for dependency management. Tomcat does not seem to find the h2 database driver - however, adding postgresql via maven, starting a local postgresql-daemon and connecting to it works just fine.

I am also able to run some simple JUnit-Tests (without tomcat) against the h2 in-memory database.

My initialization code (in code instead of an xml to rule out any errors there):

Properties props = new Properties(); // h2 in-memory props.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect"); props.setProperty("hibernate.connection.url", "jdbc:h2:mem:test"); // postgresql props.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect"); props.setProperty("hibernate.connection.driver_class", "org.postgresql.Driver"); props.setProperty("hibernate.connection.username", "admin"); props.setProperty("hibernate.connection.password", "...password..."); props.setProperty("hibernate.connection.url", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/glmtest"); // Common Options props.setProperty("hibernate.connection_pool_size", "1"); props.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create"); props.setProperty("hibernate.show_sql", "true"); sessionFactory = new Configuration() .addProperties(props) .addAnnotatedClass( AnEntity.class ) .buildSessionFactory(); 

If I run a unit-test against this class with the H2 initialization, everything works. Upon deployment on the tomcat, the following error is shown:

org.hibernate.service.spi.ServiceException: Unable to create requested service [org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.JdbcEnvironment] org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.createService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:244) org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:208) org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:189) [...] org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: Error calling DriverManager#getConnection org.hibernate.exception.internal.SQLStateConversionDelegate.convert(SQLStateConversionDelegate.java:115) org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.BasicConnectionCreator$1$1.convert(BasicConnectionCreator.java:101) org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.BasicConnectionCreator.convertSqlException(BasicConnectionCreator.java:123) [...] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:h2:mem:test java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:689) java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:208) org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionCreator.makeConnection(DriverManagerConnectionCreator.java:34) [...] 

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Both libraries (h2 and psql) are installed via Maven, both without a scope (defaulting to "compile"). I am on the right tomcat server, I am deploying correctly (since postgresql does work), tomcat and java are using the same JRE8 runtime environment. Other registered webservices (main project uses JAX) without database-dependency work as expected.

I'm out of ideas - any help much appreciated.