diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/DbcpDataSourceFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/DbcpDataSourceFactory.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 0454161e6..000000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/config/DbcpDataSourceFactory.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,261 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config;
-
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.BufferedWriter;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.sql.Connection;
-import java.sql.SQLException;
-import java.sql.Statement;
-
-import javax.sql.DataSource;
-
-import org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-
-/**
- * A factory that creates a data source fit for use in a system environment. Creates a DBCP simple data source 
- * from the provided connection properties.
- *
- * This factory returns a fully-initialized DataSource implementation. When the DataSource is returned, callers are
- * guaranteed that the database schema and data will have been loaded by that time.
- *
- * Is a FactoryBean, for exposing the fully-initialized DataSource as a Spring bean. See {@link #getObject()}.
- *
- * @author Chris Beams
- * @author Scott Andrews
- */
-public class DbcpDataSourceFactory implements FactoryBean<DataSource>, DisposableBean {
-
-	// configurable properties
-
-	private String driverClassName;
-
-	private String url;
-
-	private String username;
-
-	private String password;
-
-	private boolean populate;
-
-	private Resource schemaLocation;
-
-	private Resource dataLocation;
-
-	private Resource dropLocation;
-
-	/**
-	 * The object created by this factory.
-	 */
-	private BasicDataSource dataSource;
-
-	public void setDriverClassName(String driverClassName) {
-		this.driverClassName = driverClassName;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * The data source connection URL
-	 */
-	public void setUrl(String url) {
-		this.url = url;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * The data source username
-	 */
-	public void setUsername(String username) {
-		this.username = username;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 *The data source password
-	 */
-	public void setPassword(String password) {
-		this.password = password;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Indicates that the data base should be populated from the schema and data locations
-	 */
-	public void setPopulate(boolean populate) {
-		this.populate = populate;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Sets the location of the file containing the schema DDL to export to the database.
-	 * @param schemaLocation the location of the database schema DDL
-	 */
-	public void setSchemaLocation(Resource schemaLocation) {
-		this.schemaLocation = schemaLocation;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Sets the location of the file containing the data to load into the database.
-	 * @param testDataLocation the location of the data file
-	 */
-	public void setDataLocation(Resource testDataLocation) {
-		this.dataLocation = testDataLocation;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Sets the location of the file containing the drop scripts for the database.
-	 * @param testDataLocation the location of the data file
-	 */
-	public void setDropLocation(Resource testDropLocation) {
-		this.dropLocation = testDropLocation;
-	}
-
-	// implementing FactoryBean
-
-	// this method is called by Spring to expose the DataSource as a bean
-	public DataSource getObject() throws Exception {
-		if (dataSource == null) {
-			initDataSource();
-		}
-		return dataSource;
-	}
-
-	public Class<DataSource> getObjectType() {
-		return DataSource.class;
-	}
-
-	public boolean isSingleton() {
-		return true;
-	}
-
-	// implementing DisposableBean
-
-	public void destroy() throws Exception {
-		dataSource.close();
-	}
-
-	// internal helper methods
-
-	// encapsulates the steps involved in initializing the data source: creating it, and populating it
-	private void initDataSource() {
-		// create the database source first
-		this.dataSource = createDataSource();
-
-		if (this.populate) {
-			// now populate the database by loading the schema and data
-			populateDataSource();
-		}
-	}
-
-	private BasicDataSource createDataSource() {
-		BasicDataSource dataSource = new BasicDataSource();
-		dataSource.setDriverClassName(this.driverClassName);
-		dataSource.setUrl(this.url);
-		dataSource.setUsername(this.username);
-		dataSource.setPassword(this.password);
-		return dataSource;
-	}
-
-	private void populateDataSource() {
-		DatabasePopulator populator = new DatabasePopulator(dataSource);
-		if (dropLocation != null) {
-			try {
-				populator.populate(this.dropLocation);
-			} 
-			catch (Exception e) {
-			   	// ignore
-			}
-		}
-		populator.populate(this.schemaLocation);
-		populator.populate(this.dataLocation);
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Populates a in memory data source with data.
-	 */
-	private class DatabasePopulator {
-
-		private DataSource dataSource;
-
-		/**
-		 * Creates a new database populator.
-		 * @param dataSource the data source that will be populated.
-		 */
-		public DatabasePopulator(DataSource dataSource) {
-			this.dataSource = dataSource;
-		}
-
-		/**
-		 * Populate the database executing the statements in the provided resource against the database
-		 * @param sqlFile spring resource containing SQL to run against the db
-		 */
-		public void populate(Resource sqlFile) {
-			Connection connection = null;
-			try {
-				connection = dataSource.getConnection();
-				try {
-					String sql = parseSqlIn(sqlFile);
-					executeSql(sql, connection);
-				} catch (IOException e) {
-					throw new RuntimeException("I/O exception occurred accessing the database schema file", e);
-				} catch (SQLException e) {
-					throw new RuntimeException("SQL exception occurred exporting database schema", e);
-				}
-			} catch (SQLException e) {
-				throw new RuntimeException("SQL exception occurred acquiring connection", e);
-			} finally {
-				if (connection != null) {
-					try {
-						connection.close();
-					} catch (SQLException e) {
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		// utility method to read a .sql txt input stream
-		private String parseSqlIn(Resource resource) throws IOException {
-			InputStream is = null;
-			try {
-				is = resource.getInputStream();
-				BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
-
-				StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
-				BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(sw);
-
-				for (int c=reader.read(); c != -1; c=reader.read()) {
-					writer.write(c);
-				}
-				writer.flush();
-				return sw.toString();
-
-			} finally {
-				if (is != null) {
-					is.close();
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		// utility method to run the parsed sql
-		private void executeSql(String sql, Connection connection) throws SQLException {
-			Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
-			statement.execute(sql);
-		}
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/jdbc.properties b/src/main/resources/jdbc.properties
index 02bda078b..802ff6321 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/jdbc.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/jdbc.properties
@@ -22,10 +22,8 @@ jdbc.username=sa
 jdbc.password=
 
 # Properties that control the population of schema and data for a new data source
-jdbc.populate=true
-jdbc.schemaLocation=classpath:db/hsqldb/initDB.txt
+jdbc.initLocation=classpath:db/hsqldb/initDB.txt
 jdbc.dataLocation=classpath:db/hsqldb/populateDB.txt
-jdbc.dropLocation=classpath:db/hsqldb/dropTables.txt
 
 # Property that determines which Hibernate dialect to use
 # (only applied with "applicationContext-hibernate.xml")
@@ -43,14 +41,12 @@ jpa.database=HSQL
 
 #jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
 #jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/petclinic
-#jdbc.username=pc
-#jdbc.password=pc
+#jdbc.username=root
+#jdbc.password=
 
 # Properties that control the population of schema and data for a new data source
-#jdbc.populate=false
 #jdbc.schemaLocation=classpath:db/mysql/initDB.txt
 #jdbc.dataLocation=classpath:db/mysql/populateDB.txt
-#jdbc.dropLocation=classpath:db/mysql/dropTables.txt
 
 # Property that determines which Hibernate dialect to use
 # (only applied with "applicationContext-hibernate.xml")
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-dataSource.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-dataSource.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf655c5f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-dataSource.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+	Application context definition for PetClinic Datasource.
+-->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+		xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
+		xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
+		xsi:schemaLocation="
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd">
+				
+    <!-- ========================= DATASOURCE DEFINITION ========================= -->				
+    
+	<!-- Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file -->
+	<!-- (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the dataSource definition below) -->
+	<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
+
+    <!-- DataSource configuration for Apache Commons DBCP. -->
+	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
+			p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}"
+			p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}"/>
+	
+	<!-- JNDI DataSource for JEE environments -->
+	<!--
+	<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/petclinic"/>
+	-->
+
+	<!-- Database initializer. If any of the script fails, the initialization stops. -->
+	<!-- As an alternative, for embedded databases see <jdbc:embedded-database/>. -->
+    <jdbc:initialize-database data-source="dataSource">
+        <jdbc:script location="${jdbc.initLocation}"/>
+        <jdbc:script location="${jdbc.dataLocation}"/>
+    </jdbc:initialize-database>
+
+</beans>    
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-hibernate.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-hibernate.xml
index 39a939aad..8f414a7df 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-hibernate.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-hibernate.xml
@@ -4,41 +4,18 @@
 -->
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-		xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
+		xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 		xsi:schemaLocation="
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-			http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
 
 	<!-- ========================= RESOURCE DEFINITIONS ========================= -->
 
 	<!-- Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file -->
-	<!-- (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the dataSource definition below) -->
+	<!-- (in this case, Hibernate-related settings for the sessionFactory definition below) -->
 	<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
 
-	<!--
-		Uses Apache Commons DBCP for connection pooling. See Commons DBCP documentation
-		for the required JAR files. Alternatively you can use another connection pool
-		such as C3P0, similarly configured using Spring.
-	-->
-	
-	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.DbcpDataSourceFactory"
-		p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" 
-		p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" p:populate="${jdbc.populate}"
-		p:schemaLocation="${jdbc.schemaLocation}" p:dataLocation="${jdbc.dataLocation}"/>
-
-    <!-- DataSource configuration for Apache Commons DBCP. -->
-    <!--
-	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
-			p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" p:username="${jdbc.username}"
-			p:password="${jdbc.password}"/>
-    -->
-	<!-- JNDI DataSource for JEE environments -->
-	<!--
-		<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/petclinic"/>
-	-->
-
 	<!-- Hibernate SessionFactory -->
 	<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean"
 			p:dataSource-ref="dataSource" p:mappingResources="petclinic.hbm.xml">
@@ -94,4 +71,4 @@
 	<!-- Hibernate's JMX statistics service -->
 	<bean name="petclinic:type=HibernateStatistics" class="org.hibernate.jmx.StatisticsService" autowire="byName"/>
 
-</beans>
+</beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jdbc.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jdbc.xml
index e2b9bb4f7..6819d6db4 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jdbc.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jdbc.xml
@@ -3,45 +3,18 @@
 	Application context definition for PetClinic on JDBC.
 -->
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-		xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-		xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
-		xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
+		xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+		xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 		xsi:schemaLocation="
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-			http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
 
 	<!-- ========================= RESOURCE DEFINITIONS ========================= -->
 
-	<!-- Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file -->
-	<!-- (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the dataSource definition below) -->
-	<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
-
-	<!--
-		Spring FactoryBean that creates a DataSource using Apache Commons DBCP for connection 
-		pooling. See Commons DBCP documentation for the required JAR files.  This factory bean
-		can populate the data source with a schema and data scripts if configured to do so.
-		
-		An alternate factory bean can be created for different connection pool implementations,
-		C3P0 for example.
-	-->
-	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.DbcpDataSourceFactory"
-			p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" 
-			p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" p:populate="${jdbc.populate}"
-			p:schemaLocation="${jdbc.schemaLocation}" p:dataLocation="${jdbc.dataLocation}"/>
-
-    <!-- DataSource configuration for Apache Commons DBCP. -->
-    <!--
-	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
-			p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" p:username="${jdbc.username}"
-			p:password="${jdbc.password}"/>
-    -->
-	<!-- JNDI DataSource for JEE environments -->
-	<!--
-	<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/petclinic"/>
-	-->
+    <!-- import the dataSource definition -->
+    <import resource="applicationContext-dataSource.xml"/>
 
 	<!-- Transaction manager for a single JDBC DataSource (alternative to JTA) -->
 	<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager"
@@ -88,4 +61,4 @@
 	<!-- Call monitoring aspect that monitors call count and call invocation time -->
 	<bean id="callMonitor" class="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.aspects.CallMonitoringAspect"/>
 
-</beans>
+</beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jpa.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jpa.xml
index 5b2be5ecd..03ff7645e 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jpa.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jpa.xml
@@ -4,17 +4,18 @@
 -->
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-		xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
-		xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
+		xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 		xsi:schemaLocation="
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-			http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
 			http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
 
 	<!-- ========================= RESOURCE DEFINITIONS ========================= -->
 
+    <!-- import the dataSource definition -->
+    <import resource="applicationContext-dataSource.xml"/>
+    
 	<!--
 		Activates a load-time weaver for the context. Any bean within the context that
 		implements LoadTimeWeaverAware (such as LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean)
@@ -23,34 +24,10 @@
 	<context:load-time-weaver/>
 
 	<!-- Configurer that replaces ${...} placeholders with values from a properties file -->
-	<!-- (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the dataSource definition below) -->
+	<!-- (in this case, JDBC-related settings for the JPA EntityManager definition below) -->
 	<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
 
-	<!--
-		Spring FactoryBean that creates a DataSource using Apache Commons DBCP for connection 
-		pooling. See Commons DBCP documentation for the required JAR files.  This factory bean
-		can populate the data source with a schema and data scripts if configured to do so.
-		
-		An alternate factory bean can be created for different connection pool implementations,
-		C3P0 for example.
-	-->
-	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.config.DbcpDataSourceFactory"
-			p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" 
-			p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" p:populate="${jdbc.populate}"
-			p:schemaLocation="${jdbc.schemaLocation}" p:dataLocation="${jdbc.dataLocation}"/>
-
-    <!-- DataSource configuration for Apache Commons DBCP. -->
-    <!--
-	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
-			p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" p:username="${jdbc.username}"
-			p:password="${jdbc.password}"/>
-    -->
-	<!-- JNDI DataSource for JEE environments -->
-	<!--
-	<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/petclinic"/>
-	-->
-
-	<!-- JPA EntityManagerFactory -->
+    <!-- JPA EntityManagerFactory -->
 	<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
 			p:dataSource-ref="dataSource">
 		<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
@@ -108,4 +85,4 @@
 	-->
 	<bean id="clinic" class="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.jpa.EntityManagerClinic"/>
 
-</beans>
+</beans>
\ No newline at end of file