Java - Hibernate.cfg.xml - не может разрешить драйвер в файле

Я использую Hibernate для подключения моего проекта к MySQL, и я получаю сообщение об ошибке с файлом hibernate.cfg.xml - не могу решить пакет mysql (и пакет cj, jdbc и т.д.).

Это код -

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
    "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
  <session-factory>
    <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/theprocess?useUnicode=true&amp;useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&amp;useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&amp;serverTimezone=UTC</property>
    <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="connection.username">root</property>
    <property name="connection.password">Amit4089</property>
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    <!-- DB schema will be updated if needed -->
    <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
    <mapping class="com.example.WebAppProcess20.Entities.ClientsEntity"/>
    <mapping class="com.example.WebAppProcess20.Entities.InvoicesEntity"/>
    <mapping class="com.example.WebAppProcess20.Entities.OrdersEntity"/>
    <mapping class="com.example.WebAppProcess20.Entities.OrdersitemsEntity"/>
    <mapping class="com.example.WebAppProcess20.Entities.ProductsEntity"/>
  </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Я говорю о пятой строке кода.

Дело в том, что зависимости правильно объявлены, и один и тот же файл работает у моего партнера по проекту.

(Spring Framework).

#update 1 - Добавлена зависимость

<dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <version>8.0.11</version>
    </dependency>

Стек

19:28:27.282 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.TraversableResolvers - Found javax.persistence.Persistence on classpath containing 'getPersistenceUtil'. Assuming JPA 2 environment. Trying to instantiate JPA aware TraversableResolver
19:28:27.298 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.TraversableResolvers - Instantiated JPA aware TraversableResolver of type org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver.
19:28:27.298 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.TraversableResolvers - Unable to load or instantiate JPA aware resolver org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver. All properties will per default be traversable.
19:28:27.298 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.xml.ValidationXmlParser - Trying to load META-INF/validation.xml for XML based Validator configuration.
19:28:27.298 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.xml.ResourceLoaderHelper - Trying to load META-INF/validation.xml via TCCL
19:28:27.298 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.xml.ResourceLoaderHelper - Trying to load META-INF/validation.xml via Hibernate Validator class loader
19:28:27.298 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.xml.ValidationXmlParser - No META-INF/validation.xml found. Using annotation based configuration only.
19:28:27.704 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator - Loaded expression factory via original TCCL
19:28:27.704 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl - HV000234: Using org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator as ValidatorFactory-scoped message interpolator.
19:28:27.704 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl - HV000234: Using org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.resolver.TraverseAllTraversableResolver as ValidatorFactory-scoped traversable resolver.
19:28:27.704 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl - HV000234: Using org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.ExecutableParameterNameProvider as ValidatorFactory-scoped parameter name provider.
19:28:27.704 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl - HV000234: Using org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.DefaultClockProvider as ValidatorFactory-scoped clock provider.
19:28:27.704 [background-preinit] DEBUG org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl - HV000234: Using org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.scripting.DefaultScriptEvaluatorFactory as ValidatorFactory-scoped script evaluator factory.

' Есть идеи?