Archived: MySQL Connector/J 5.1 Installation

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∟Archived: MySQL Connector/J 5.1 Installation

This section describes how to download and install MySQL Connector/J (JDBC driver) required to run Java programs to access MySQL servers.

To use Java programs to access MySQL servers, of course you need to install the JDK package on you system first. If you need help on installing the JDK package, please read my other tutorial book, "Java Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples" at herongyang.com/Java.

With MySQL server installed and running, I am ready to try the JDBC driver to access my MySQL server. Here is what I did to download and install MySQL JDBC driver:

Go to the MySQL Drivers page at mysql.com/products/connector.
Click Download link next to "JDBC Driver for MySQL (Connector/J)"
Click the Download link next to "Platform Independent (Architecture Independent), ZIP Archive 5.1.38 4.1M"
Save the download file, mysql-connector-java-5.1.38.zip, to a temporary directory. The file size is about 4.1MB.
Unzip this file. I got a directory called mysql-connector-java-5.1.38. I moved and renamed this directory to \local\mysql-connector-java.
Finally, copy \local\mysql-connector-java\mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar to \local\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar.

The installation is done. You should read the documentation at \local\mysql-connector-java\docs\connector-j.pdf. Some information of MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38 is summarized here:

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38 implements version 4.0 of the JDBC specification.
MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38 is a Type 4 driver - Pure Java and direct connection to the server.
MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38 supports JDK 1.8.x environments.