JPA binding errors

Hi, I am newbie in Vaadin and I am struggling with some issues.
I create a simple project with an entity: person.
Now I want to create a table and bind it to person entity.

The problem is that I cant connect vaadin with my DB, because I am getting next exception:

GRAVE: Servlet.service() for servlet [Myvaadinproject Application]
in context with path
[/myvaadinproject] threw exception [java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/vaadin/addon/jpacontainer/JPAContainerFactory]
with root cause
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.vaadin.addon.jpacontainer.JPAContainerFactory
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1676)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1521)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
at com.example.myvaadinproject.VaadinTestMainView.(VaadinTestMainView.java:20)
at com.example.myvaadinproject.MyvaadinprojectApplication.init(MyvaadinprojectApplication.java:34)
at com.vaadin.Application.start(Application.java:551)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.startApplication(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:1219)
at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.service(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:484)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:562)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:395)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:250)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:188)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:302)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

The code that triggers the exception is:

public VaadinTestMainView() {
super();

JPAContainer persons = JPAContainerFactory.make(Person.class, MyvaadinprojectApplication.PERSISTENCE_UNIT)
;

	persons.addEntity(new Person(null, "Marie-Louise Meilleur", 117, new Country(null,"URU",null)));

	// Set up sorting if the natural order is not appropriate
	persons.sort(new String[]{"age", "name"},
	             new boolean[]{false, false});
	 
	// Bind it to a component
	Table personTable = new Table("The Persistent People", persons);
	personTable.setVisibleColumns(new String[]{"id","name","age"});
	this.addComponent(personTable);
	//buildTree();
	setSplitPosition(30);
	
}

this is my persistence.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<persistence-unit name="prueba_vaadin">
	<provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
	
	<!-- provider>org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl</provider -->
	<exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes>
	<properties>
		<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
		<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/prueba_vaadin" />
		<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.user" value="root" />
		<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.password" value="gsdadmindb" />
		<property name="eclipselink.logging.level" value="FINE" />
		<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="drop-and-create-tables" />
		<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode"
			value="database" />
	</properties>
</persistence-unit>

Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Claud

You have a classpath problem , If you are using maven make sure JPAContainer-addon scope is set to compile (not provided) and that you deploy it.

After deployment make sure the JPAContainer-addon and all the vaadin libraries are in /WEB-INF/lib folder