Creating Connections with DataSource Class

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This section describes how to create connection objects with the DataSource class.

It is recommended now that connection objects are created by the DataSource implementation class, com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource. Here is a sample program that creates a connection object using the DataSource class without using JNDI services:

/**
 * MySqlDataSource.java
 * Copyright (c) 2007 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.
 */
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
public class MySqlDataSource {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {

// Setting up the DataSource object
      com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource ds 
        = new com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource();
      ds.setServerName("localhost");
      ds.setPortNumber(3306);
      ds.setDatabaseName("HerongDB");
      ds.setUser("Herong");
      ds.setPassword("TopSecret");

// Getting a connection object
      con = ds.getConnection();
      
// Getting database info
      DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData();
      System.out.println("Server name: " 
        + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
      System.out.println("Server version: "
        + meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());

// Closing the connection
      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Exception: "+e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

The output confirms that I got a good connection. Remember to include mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar in the classpath for compilation and execution:

C:\>javac -cp .;\local\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar
  MySqlDataSource.java

C:\>java -cp .;\local\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar 
  MySqlDataSource

Server name: MySQL
Server version: 5.0.45-community-nt

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Loading JDBC Driver Class - mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar

JDBC Driver Connection URL

Creating Connections with DataSource Class

Getting Driver and Server Information

Creating Tables with AUTO_INCREMENT Columns

"INSERT INTO" Statements