Hibernate (JPA,JSF 2.0, Spring) switch from HyperSQL to Oracle - Configuration is being ignored
<!-- Enable processing of @PersistenceContext and @PersistenceUnit -->
<context:annotation-config/>

<!-- Enable transaction configuration with @Transactional -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>

<!-- Configure a c3p0 pooled data source -->
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource">
    <property name="user" value="user"/>
    <property name="password" value="password"/>
    <property name="driverClass" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"/>
    <property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@dburl"/>
    <property name="initialPoolSize" value="1"/>
    <property name="minPoolSize" value="1"/>
    <property name="maxPoolSize" value="10"/>
</bean>

<!-- Configure the JPA entity manager factory with Hibernate -->
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>

    <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
        <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
            <property name="showSql" value="false"/>
            <property name="database" value="ORACLE"/>
            <property name="generateDdl" value="true"/>
        </bean>
    </property>

    <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="mygourmet"/>
</bean>

<!-- Configure transaction manager for JPA -->
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
    <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
</bean>

<persistence-unit name="mygourmet" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect" />
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.connection.autocommit" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" />
    </properties>