Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();

javax.persistence.jdbc.driver = com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
javax.persistence.jdbc.url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/wehavescience
javax.persistence.jdbc.user = root
javax.persistence.jdbc.password =

hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto = create-drop
hibernate.connection.provider_class = org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider
hibernate.c3p0.max_size = 10
hibernate.c3p0.min_size = 5
hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment = 1
hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period = 300
hibernate.c3p0.max_statements = 0
hibernate.c3p0.timeout = 100

properties.put("javax.persistence.jdbc.driver", "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

PersistenceProvider persistenceProvider = new HibernatePersistenceProvider();
EntityManagerFactory factory = persistenceProvider.createEntityManagerFactory("MySQL", properties);