Why this Hibernate MySQL Connection is read-only?

Question

I have an application using Spring with Hibernate on a MySQL database. For some reason, as of the last few days, anytime I try to persist any objects to my database I am getting

Answer 1

This looks like the bug they have in MySQL Connector/J for versions up to 5.1.6: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=38747

Make sure that version is your case at least 5.1.7