Hibernate Initialization Error

Cannot open connection

java.sql.SQLException: Connections could not be acquired from the underlying database!

org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Cannot open connection
	at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.handledNonSpecificException(SQLStateConverter.java:103)
	at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:91)
	at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:43)
	at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:29)
	at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.openConnection(ConnectionManager.java:426)
	at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.getConnection(ConnectionManager.java:144)
	at org.hibernate.jdbc.JDBCContext.connection(JDBCContext.java:119)
	at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.begin(JDBCTransaction.java:57)
	at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.beginTransaction(SessionImpl.java:1326)
	at shared.HibernateHelper.testConnection(HibernateHelper.java:224)
	at shared.HibernateHelper.createFactory(HibernateHelper.java:157)
	at shared.HibernateHelper.initSessionFactory(HibernateHelper.java:65)
	at shared.HibernateHelper.initSessionFactory(HibernateHelper.java:76)
	at ch7.catalog.ControllerHelper.initHibernate(ControllerHelper.java:56)
	at ch7.catalog.Controller.init(Controller.java:32)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1134)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1089)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:761)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:135)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:541)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:690)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:373)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:868)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1589)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Connections could not be acquired from the underlying database!
	at com.mchange.v2.sql.SqlUtils.toSQLException(SqlUtils.java:106)
	at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool.checkoutPooledConnection(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:529)
	at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.AbstractPoolBackedDataSource.getConnection(AbstractPoolBackedDataSource.java:128)
	at org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider.getConnection(C3P0ConnectionProvider.java:56)
	at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.openConnection(ConnectionManager.java:423)
	... 31 more
Caused by: com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.CannotAcquireResourceException: A ResourcePool could not acquire a resource from its primary factory or source.
	at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.awaitAvailable(BasicResourcePool.java:1319)
	at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.prelimCheckoutResource(BasicResourcePool.java:557)
	at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.checkoutResource(BasicResourcePool.java:477)
	at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool.checkoutPooledConnection(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:525)
	... 34 more