MySQL (Connector/J Driver)


MySQL Connector/J is an implementation of Sun's JDBC 3.0 API for the MySQL relational database server. It strives to conform as much as possible to the JDBC API as specified by JavaSoft. It is known to work with many third-party products, including Application Servers (Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, IBM WebSphere), Object Relational Mapping Tools (Hibernate, Apache ObjectRelationalBridge, CocoBase, Kodo), Development Environments (Eclipse, Borland JBuilder, IBM WebSphere Studio)

Driver file: The .jar, .zip or .class file that contains the JDBC driver
Download link: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
Connection URL: Specify the location of the JDBC data provider
<host_name>: The IP address or the domain name of the database server
<port_number>: The port number to the database. Default is 3306
<database_name>: The name of the database to connect
User: User name to login to the database
Password: Password of the user name specified