Spring Boot tutorial: pom.xml fragment: schema properties

pom.xml

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    <db.name>game_manager</db.name>
    <jdbc.driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</jdbc.driverClassName>
    <jdbc.url>jdbc:mysql://localhost/${db.name}?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf-8&amp;autoReconnect=true&amp;useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&amp;useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&amp;serverTimezone=UTC</jdbc.url>
    <jdbc.username>username</jdbc.username>
    <jdbc.password>password</jdbc.password>
</properties>