An XML element attribute is a tag property that adds additional information to XML data. You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property.

Hibernate MySQL persistence XML file As MySQL installations continue to migrate and evolve to newer versions, the online JPA and Hibernate 5 tutorials haven’t kept up with quite as much vigor. As a ...

Hibernate 5 has updated dialects for various databases, and MySQL 8 has a special one of its own. Here's an example hibernate.cfg.xml for MySQL 8 for Hibernate 5 apps or newer.