Trying JPA on catalogue : 

14:24:05,985 ERROR FrontController:76 - [PersistenceUnit: molgenis] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory

org.molgenis.framework.db.DatabaseException: [PersistenceUnit: molgenis] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory

at org.molgenis.framework.server.MolgenisFrontController.getSecuredDatabase(MolgenisFrontController.java:157)

at org.molgenis.framework.server.MolgenisFrontController.handleRequest(MolgenisFrontController.java:115)

at org.molgenis.framework.server.MolgenisFrontController.service(MolgenisFrontController.java:71)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

Caused by: org.molgenis.framework.db.DatabaseException: [PersistenceUnit: molgenis] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory

at app.DatabaseFactory.createJpaDatabase(DatabaseFactory.java:45)

at app.DatabaseFactory.create(DatabaseFactory.java:84)

at app.servlet.FrontController.createDatabase(FrontController.java:95)

at org.molgenis.framework.server.MolgenisFrontController.getSecuredDatabase(MolgenisFrontController.java:147)

... 15 more

Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: molgenis] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory

at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:915)

at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:57)

at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:48)

at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:32)

at org.molgenis.framework.db.jpa.JpaDatabase$EMFactory.addEntityManagerFactory(JpaDatabase.java:58)

at org.molgenis.framework.db.jpa.JpaDatabase$EMFactory.<init>(JpaDatabase.java:41)

at org.molgenis.framework.db.jpa.JpaDatabase$EMFactory.createEntityManager(JpaDatabase.java:83)

at app.JpaDatabase.<init>(JpaDatabase.java:84)

at app.DatabaseFactory.createJpaDatabase(DatabaseFactory.java:43)

... 18 more

Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Wrong column type in LLcatalogue.Category for column description. Found: text, expected: longtext

at org.hibernate.mapping.Table.validateColumns(Table.java:283)

at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validateSchema(Configuration.java:1343)

at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaValidator.validate(SchemaValidator.java:139)

at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:378)

at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1872)

at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:906)

... 26 more