I'm using JPA (Hibernate as provider), Glassfish and MySQL. Everything works great in development, but when I deploy the app to a test server and let it run (largely idle) overnight, I'm usually greeted with this in the morning:

[#|2011-03-09T15:06:00.229+0000|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|javax.enterprise.system.std.com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl|_ThreadID=23;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|ERROR [htt\
p-thread-pool-8080-(1)] (JDBCTransaction.java:91) - JDBC begin failed
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: The last packet successfully received from the server was 41,936,868 milliseconds ago.  The last packet \
sent successfully to the server was 41,936,868 milliseconds ago. is longer than the server configured value of 'wait_timeout'. You should consider either expirin\
g and/or testing connection validity before use in your application, increasing the server configured values for client timeouts, or using the Connector/J connec\
tion property 'autoReconnect=true' to avoid this problem.
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:409)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1118)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3321)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1940)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2113)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2562)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.setAutoCommit(ConnectionImpl.java:4956)
        at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.begin(JDBCTransaction.java:87)
        at org.hibernate
java hibernate jpa jakarta-ee connection-pooling
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