connection-create-profile fails to retain the database connection password

1. Create a new project, setup jpa, and create a connection profile: $ project- new --named par --topLevelPackage ca.gerrymatte.par --type war --finalName par ; ***SUCCESS*** Project named 'par' has been created. [par]$ jpa-setup --provider Hibernate --dbType MYSQL5_INNODB --container JBOSS_AS7 --dataSourceName java:jboss/datasources/parDS ; ***SUCCESS*** Persistence (JPA) is installed. [persistence.xml]$ connection-create-profile - --name parConnection --hibernateDialect MySQL5\ with\ InnoDB\ :\ org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect --driverClass com.mysql.jdbc.Driver --driverLocation C:/s/jclasses/drivers/mysql.jar --userName root --userPassword xxxxxx --jdbcUrl jdbc:mysql: ///par?characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;characterSetResults=UTF-8&amp;autoReconnect=tru e&amp;zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull --verifyConnection true ; ***SUCCESS*** Connection profile parConnection has been saved successfully [persistence.xml]$ 2. Try to generate the entities using the connection profile: jpa-generate-entities-from-tables - --databaseTables * --connectionProfile parConnection --targetPackage ca.gerrymatte.par.model ; org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Getting database metadata at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.handledNonSpecificException(SQLStateConverter.java:140) at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:128) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.AbstractMetaDataDialect.getMetaData(AbstractMetaDataDialect.java:63) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.AbstractMetaDataDialect.caseForSearch(AbstractMetaDataDialect.java:163) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.JDBCMetaDataDialect.getTables(JDBCMetaDataDialect.java:22) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.JDBCReader.processTables(JDBCReader.java:476) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.JDBCReader.readDatabaseSchema(JDBCReader.java:74) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.JDBCReader.readDatabaseSchema(JDBCReader.java:860) at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readDatabaseSchema(JDBCBinder.java:120) at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readFromDatabase(JDBCBinder.java:93) at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.readFromJDBC(JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.java:43) at org.jboss.forge.addon.database.tools.util.HibernateToolsHelper$1.run(HibernateToolsHelper.java:27) at org.jboss.forge.addon.database.tools.util.UrlClassLoaderExecutor.execute(UrlClassLoaderExecutor.java:15) at org.jboss.forge.addon.database.tools.util.HibernateToolsHelper.buildMappings(HibernateToolsHelper.java:17) at org.jboss.forge.addon.database.tools.generate.DatabaseTableSelectionStep$1.call(DatabaseTableSelectionStep.java:96) at org.jboss.forge.addon.database.tools.generate.DatabaseTableSelectionStep$1.call(DatabaseTableSelectionStep.java:86) at org.jboss.forge.furnace.util.Callables.call(Callables.java:43) at org.jboss.forge.addon.ui.impl.input.AbstractUISelectInputComponent.getValueChoices(AbstractUISelectInputComponent.java:55) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor54.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.jboss.forge.furnace.proxy.ClassLoaderInterceptor$1.call(ClassLoaderInterceptor.java:87) at org.jboss.forge.furnace.util.ClassLoaders.executeIn(ClassLoaders.java:40) at org.jboss.forge.furnace.proxy.ClassLoaderInterceptor.invoke(ClassLoaderInterceptor.java:103) at org.jboss.forge.addon.facets.AbstractFaceted_$$_javassist_4b59101b-4f6a-4fb6-9e4d-7267a243a3dd.getValueChoices(AbstractFaceted_$$_javassist_4b59101b-4f6a-4fb6-9e4d-7267a243a3dd.ja va) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.CommandLineUtil.resolveWildcardSelectOptionValues(CommandLineUtil.java:208) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.CommandLineUtil.populateUIInputs(CommandLineUtil.java:183) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.ShellWizard.populate(ShellWizard.java:57) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.ShellWizard.populate(ShellWizard.java:81) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.ShellWizard.getParser(ShellWizard.java:44) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.ForgeCommandRegistry.getForgeCommand(ForgeCommandRegistry.java:110) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.aesh.ForgeCommandRegistry.getCommand(ForgeCommandRegistry.java:77) at org.jboss.aesh.console.AeshConsoleImpl.getCommand(AeshConsoleImpl.java:242) at org.jboss.aesh.console.AeshConsoleImpl.access$100(AeshConsoleImpl.java:51) at org.jboss.aesh.console.AeshConsoleImpl$AeshConsoleCallbackImpl.execute(AeshConsoleImpl.java:304) at org.jboss.aesh.console.AeshProcess.run(AeshProcess.java:40) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang. Thread .run( Thread .java:745) Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'root' @ 'localhost' (using password: NO) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1084) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4232) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4164) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:926) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.proceedHandshakeWithPluggableAuthentication(MysqlIO.java:1748) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1288) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2506) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2539) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2321) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:832) at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:46) 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:526) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:409) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:417) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:344) at org.jboss.forge.addon.database.tools.util.DelegatingDriver.connect(DelegatingDriver.java:25) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:187) at org.hibernate.connection.DriverManagerConnectionProvider.getConnection(DriverManagerConnectionProvider.java:133) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.AbstractMetaDataDialect.getConnection(AbstractMetaDataDialect.java:121) at org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.AbstractMetaDataDialect.getMetaData(AbstractMetaDataDialect.java:60) ... 36 more ***ERROR*** Database Tables must be specified. If I repeat the command and I insert the password at the end with --userPassword xxxxx the same error occurs.