Hi there,

I've got Tomcat and MySQL on the same box and want them to talk using Unix sockets to save a bit of TCP/IP overhead.

The docs say that this is not possible:

"MySQL Connector/J must use TCP/IP sockets to connect to MySQL, as Java does not support Unix Domain Sockets. Therefore, when MySQL Connector/J connects to MySQL, the security manager in MySQL server will use its grant tables to determine whether or not the connection should be allowed."

I can see that that allows a pure Java implementation, but does anyone know if support for Unix domain sockets is planned at all?

Thanks,

Mike