I am creating a spring based web application that uses embedded hsqldb. My spring config is pretty simple:
This solution worked for me
<bean class="org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource" id="dataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:file:#{systemProperties['user.home']}/db/data" />
<property name="username" value="sa" />
<property name="password" value="" />
</bean>
<jdbc:initialize-database data-source="dataSource">
<jdbc:script location="classpath:scripts/create-table-if-not-exists" />
</jdbc:initialize-database>