I am trying to make a simple project work with hibernate under Eclipse.
I have all the required libraries, a test database in MySQL, and this
directory structure:
ProjectName folder
│   .project
│   .classpath
│   build.xml
│
├───core
│   ├───demo
│   │       Test.java
│   │
│   │
│   ├───hibernate
│   │       date.hbm.xml
│   │
│   ├───util
│   │       HibernateUtil.java
│   │
│   └───dao
│           DateDAO.java
│
├───bin
│   │   date.hbm.xml
│   │   hibernate.cfg.xml
│   │
│   ├───hibernate
│   │       date.hbm.xml
│   │
│   ├───util
│   │       HibernateUtil.class
│   │
│   │
│   ├───demo
│   │       Test.class
│   │
│   └───dao
│           DateDAO.class
│
├───.settings
│       org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
│
└───lib
        mysql-connector-java-5.1.7-bin.jar
        ant-1.6.5.jar
        ant-antlr-1.6.5.jar
        ant-junit-1.6.5.jar
        ant-launcher-1.6.5.jar
        antlr-2.7.6.jar
        ant-swing-1.6.5.jar
        asm.jar
        asm-attrs.jar
        bsh-2.0b1.jar
        c3p0-0.9.1.jar
        cglib-2.1.3.jar
        checkstyle-all.jar
        cleanimports.jar
        commons-collections-2.1.1.jar
        commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
        concurrent-1.3.2.jar
        connector.jar
        dom4j-1.6.1.jar
        ehcache-1.2.3.jar
        freemarker.jar
        hibernate3.jar
        hibernate-tools.jar
        jaas.jar
        jacc-1_0-fr.jar
        javaee.jar
        javassist.jar
        jaxen-1.1-beta-7.jar
        jboss-cache.jar
        jboss-common.jar
        jboss-jmx.jar
        jboss-system.jar
        jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
        jgroups-2.2.8.jar
        jta.jar
        jtidy-r8-20060801.jar
        junit-4.1.jar
        log4j-1.2.11.jar
        mysql.jar
        mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar
        oscache-2.1.jar
        proxool-0.8.3.jar
        swarmcache-1.0rc2.jar
        syndiag2.jar
        versioncheck.jar
        xerces-2.6.2.jar
        xml-apis.jar
DateDAO respects the Beans construction.
This is hibernate.cfg.xml
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
   "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
   "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
   <session-factory>
   
         <!-- Database connection settings -->  
         <property name="connection.driver_class">org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</property>
         <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Hibernatetest</property>
         <property name="connection.username">root</property>
         <property name="connection.password">root</property>
         
         
         <property name="connection.pool_size">3</property>  
                  
         <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
         
         <!-- Enable Hibernate's automatic session context management -->
         <!--  the current unit of work is bound to the current Java thread that executes our application -->
         <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
         
         <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
         
         <property name="show_sql">true</property>
         
          <mapping resource="date.hbm.xml"/>
         
   </session-factory>
   
</hibernate-configuration>
Code:
 
Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
      session.beginTransaction();
      System.out.println("read data: transaction started");
      DateDAO valN = new DateDAO();
      valN.setId(2);
      valN.setVal("val 2");
      session.save(valN);
      System.out.println("new value added");
      session.getTransaction().commit();
      System.out.println(" transaction committed");
The error that it throws is at follows:
SessionFactory was created 
Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: Cannot open connection.
I did something wrong?