JDBC-url für die Konfiguration von MySQL auf utf8-Zeichenkodierung

MySQL 5.6 Konfiguration

Habe ich konfiguriert /etc/mysql/my.cnf manuell zu bedienen utf8. Siehe unten:

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets

[mysql]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqladmin]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlcheck]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqldump]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlimport]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlshow]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[client]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

In der Konsole:

mysql> show variables like 'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                       |
| character_set_connection | utf8                       |
| character_set_database   | utf8                       |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
| character_set_results    | utf8                       |
| character_set_server     | utf8                       |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Anwendung Konfiguration

Nun für die web-app, die ich sowohl von dieser Verbindungs-url in der Tomcat context.xml

url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"

url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&characterSetResults=utf8&connectionCollation=utf8_general_ci"

Oben funktioniert nicht und gibt mir folgende für die Anwendung.

show variables like 'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8mb4                    |
| character_set_connection | utf8                       |
| character_set_database   | utf8                       |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
| character_set_results    | utf8mb4                    |
| character_set_server     | utf8                       |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+

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Was könnte hier falsch sein? Warum ist es zu zeigen utf8mb4 statt utf8?