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In the middle of my web-development I just close my web-app in my eclipse IDE, about a minute, I just saw a WARNING in my eclipse console.

WARNING: The web application [/Spring.MVC] registered the JDBC driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
Sep 06, 2014 8:31:55 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
WARNING: The web application [/Spring.MVC] appears to have started a thread named [Abandoned connection cleanup thread] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak. Stack trace of thread:
 java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
 java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(Unknown Source)
 com.mysql.jdbc.AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread.run(AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread.java:40)
Sep 06, 2014 8:32:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
Sep 06, 2014 8:32:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
Sep 06, 2014 8:32:03 PM org.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper logPersistenceUnitInformation
INFO: HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
    name: personPU
    ...]

It did not caused any memory leak so far, I checked my VisualVM, everything is working as usual, but as I search more about this thing I realize that this warning is caused by the MySQL driver not releasing resources or not being closed properly(I dont know how to say it exactly) and I ended up in this post at SO related issue

and the OP is right the answer of "don't worry about it" won't be sufficient. This warning bothers me because it may give me some future persistence problems and that worries me a lot, I tried the code the OP has written but I'm having a problem what Libraries should I use to make this code work. This is what I got sor far..

import java.sql.Driver;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebListener;
import org.hibernate.annotations.common.util.impl.LoggerFactory;
import com.mysql.jdbc.AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread;
@WebListener
public class ContextFinalizer implements ServletContextListener {

private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ContextFinalizer.class);

public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
}

public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {
    Enumeration<Driver> drivers = DriverManager.getDrivers();
    Driver d = null;
    while (drivers.hasMoreElements()) {
        try {
            d = drivers.nextElement();
            DriverManager.deregisterDriver(d);
            LOGGER.warn(String.format("Driver %s deregistered", d));
        }
        catch (SQLException ex) {
            LOGGER.warn(String.format("Error deregistering driver %s", d), ex);
        }
    }
    try {
        AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread.shutdown();
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e) {
        logger.warn("SEVERE problem cleaning up: " + e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

I just want to know what Libraries do I need or If I'm using the right libraries to implement this properly, I do not even know what Logger should I use, thank you for any help,

Answer 1

See this answer. It seems that MySQL driver should be in {$TOMCAT]/lib shared between applications. Check that you are not including it with each application. At least it worked for me and I have been able to remove the warning.

If you are using Maven mark the dependency as provided.

UPDATE:
root cause is that Tomcat have problems to garbage collect the driver because it is registered in a singleton common to several applications. Closing one application does not allow Tomcat to release the driver. See this answer.