The configuration file contains information about the database and mapping file. Conventionally, its name should be hibernate.cfg.xml.
create an XML file named hibernate.cfg.xml under the resources folder
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<!-- JDBC Database connection settings -->
<property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate_db?useSSL=false</property>
<property name="connection.username">root</property>
<property name="connection.password">root</property>
<!-- JDBC connection pool settings ... using built-in test pool -->
<property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
<!-- Select our SQL dialect -->
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</property>
<!-- Echo the SQL to stdout -->
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<!-- Set the current session context -->
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</property>
<!-- dbcp connection pool configuration -->
<property name="hibernate.dbcp.initialSize">5</property>
<property name="hibernate.dbcp.maxTotal">20</property>
<property name="hibernate.dbcp.maxIdle">10</property>
<property name="hibernate.dbcp.minIdle">5</property>
<property name="hibernate.dbcp.maxWaitMillis">-1</property>
<mapping class="net.javaguides.hibernate.entity.Student" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>