title: Hibernate > 3.3 and c3p0
body: <p>As c3p0 does not seem to be bundled with Hibernate anymore (as of versions > 3.3, I am using Hibernate 3.6.0), I'd like to know how to integrate c3p0 with Hibernate.</p>
  
  <p>Obviously the old approach with</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;property name="connection.provider_class"&gt;org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider&lt;/property&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does not seem to work anymore, as the class C3P0ConnectionProvider is not provided by Hibernate anymore. Do I now have to build this on my own or is it safe to integrate the hibernate-c3p0-3.3.x.jar?</p>
  
  <p>Note: I am using bare Hibernate, no Spring etc.</p>