<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
  "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
  "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>

        <!-- datasource config -->
        <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;autoReconnect=true</property>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property>
        <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>

        <property name="connection.username">user</property>
        <property name="connection.password">pass</property>

        <!-- c3p0 config http://www.hibernate.org/214.html -->
        <property name="connection.provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>        
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment">1</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">60</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">1</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">2</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">50</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">0</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquireRetryAttempts">1</property>
        <property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquireRetryDelay">250</property>

        <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property>
        <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</property>

        <property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory</property>
        <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>

        ...

    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>