what's your problem exactly ? Post your stack trace here. if you are using maven , post your pom.xml . There is no different to use spring or another framework. In fact they are irrelevant . Did you added derby dependency to your pom ?
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>
<artifactId>derby</artifactId>
<version>10.9.1.0</version>
</dependency>