Hi Tim,

I agree with you. But I said that I didn't want to rewrite everything. In fact, I'd just want to write the beginning of a driver so that: 1) I can fetch the specific data I need from my database for my specific application without resorting to a general-purpose driver, in case this would be a faster method to do a well-know set of actions; 2) I could maybe add functionality to an existing driver, provided I'd then know a little bit about how the general-purpose JDBC API works. Hence, the first thing I really need is information about the communication protocol with mysld. I think I will, at least at the beginning, experiment a little bit with it rather than start to write a new driver. I wonder if one can find this information some place, in the form of a written document (html or txt or whatever), cause I didn't find it by now.

Thanks for your help,