Error calling Driver#connect and Could not create connection to database server

Question

Mar 05, 2019 10:12:28 AM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration doConfigure
INFO: HHH000041: Configured SessionFactory: null
 Mar 05, 2019 10:38:45 AM  <clinit>
INFO: HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found

//hibernate class
public class HibernateUtil {
    private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();

    private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
        try {
            // Create the SessionFactory from hibernate.cfg.xml
            return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
        }
        catch (Throwable ex) {
            // Make sure you log the exception, as it might be swallowed
            System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
        }
    }

    public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
        return sessionFactory;
    }

}

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: Error calling Driver#connect

Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!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>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.password">***</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/foot?autoReconnect=true&amp;=utf-8&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;connectionCollation=utf8_unicode_ci&amp;characterSetResults=utf8</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    <property name="format_sql">true</property>
    <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update </property>

    <mapping class="vn.myclass.core.persistence.entity.MemberEntity" />
    <mapping class="vn.myclass.core.persistence.entity.RoleEntity" />
    <mapping class="vn.myclass.core.persistence.entity.ProductEntity" />
    <mapping class="vn.myclass.core.persistence.entity.CommentEntity" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Answer 1

I fixed my problem which is located in the driver connector, because mysql version 8.0 supports driver connector / j 5.5 and up