I have a web app which in production I run on Tomcat. It uses the MySQL connector, however it is not bundled up with the war, rather it is included under Tomcat\'s common lib di
hd-props cfg/dev-local.properties
It is a jetty-env.xml, which points to .properties file, which contains all the connect params to DB.
It is a spring config (i'm using spring too)
And then, I call mvn jetty:run, and it works fine...