Connector/J 5.1

MySQL Connector/J is the official JDBC driver for MySQL.

Online documentation for Connector/J

Connector/J 5.1 includes support for JDBC-4.0 functionality, including:

• Ease-of-development features including auto-registration with the DriverManager via the service provider mechanism, standardized Connection validity checks and categorized SQLExceptions based on recoverability/retry-ability and class of the underlying error.
• Unwrapping to interfaces that include vendor extensions
• Support for XML processing via JAXP interfaces to DOM, SAX and StAX
• Support for setting per-connection client information (which can be viewed in the comments section of a query via "SHOW PROCESSLIST" on a MySQL server, or can be extended to support custom persistence of the information via a public interface)
• Support for JDBC-4.0 NCHAR, NVARCHAR and NCLOB types

MySQL Connector/J is the official JDBC driver for MySQL. On this page are downloads of the current generally available (GA) release version. Online documentation for Connector/J can be found from here.

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