Re: MySQL Connector/J - Morten Norby Larsen - com.mysql.lists.java

2 messages in com.mysql.lists.javaRe: MySQL Connector/J

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Asad Habib	18 Apr 2003 09:33
Morten Norby Larsen	18 Apr 2003 10:28

Subject:	Re: MySQL Connector/J
From:	Morten Norby Larsen (mor...@magisterludi.com)
Date:	04/18/2003 10:28:15 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.java

Hi,

Connector/J under MacOSX works great.

Personally, I have only tried it in client applications, but server applications should not be an issue.

As you probably know, Java 1.3.1 is standard on OSX, and 1.4.1_01 is in Software update, ready to download (you will have to download the developer stuff from developer.apple.com). Both versions of Java work fine with Connector/J. I have not experienced any difference between the two, but everybody says we all ought to go with 1.4.1, so you might want to consider that.

I have developer for (and used) Connector/J under OSX both against a locally installed MySQL server (I have tried Marc Liyanage's version: http://www.entropy.ch) and across the network to MySQL servers running under Linux and Windows. If you use a Connector/J version earlier than 3.0.6 (?) you will likely have character set issues, though.

I have been very happy with the source code version, which I just compile into my program for development purposes, and which lets me debug my own code while seeing in the debugger what Connector/J actually does to my data. Neat.

So the short answer is: Yes, it works fine, you don't need anything else, but you should download Java 1.4.1 and its associated developer tools. And use the latest (stable, if needed) version of Connector/J.

Hope this helps,

Morten

At 12:33 18/04/03 -0400, Asad Habib wrote:

Hello. Does anyone know if MySQL Connector/J runs on MAC OS X? If so, is there any additional software required to make it work besides a (1) Java virtual machine supporting JDBC-2.0 or newer (JDK-1.2 or newer) and (2) a MySQL server supporting version 9 or 10 of the MySQL protocol? I plan to use it to communicate between the Tomcat Application Server and a MySQL Database Server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

-Asad