Hibernate - ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

For those who use Maven: add the following dependency in pom.xml.

<dependency>
    <groupId>mysql</groupId>
    <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
    <version>8.0.17</version>
</dependency>

or choose another version from here.

Then you can get the artifact using:

mvn dependency:resolve

(if you don't use the IDE).

Thanks to Reimeus for the answer. mysql-connector-java-5.1.26-bin.jar needs to be in the runtime classpath.

Run -> Run Configurations... -> Classpath -> Add external JAR.

Clean everything, try again, and the Exception is gone.

Faced the same issue with mysql-connector-java-5.1.48-bin.jar. To fix this issue I changed the driver class name from

<property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver</property>

<property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>

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