1. JDBC Type 4 driver for MySQL License: GPL 2.0: Categories: MySQL Drivers: Tags: mysql database connector driver: Used By: 5,271 artifacts: Central (84) Jahia (1.
2. MySQL Connector/J Driver Configuration Properties. Environment Properties. OTD Wizard: Database Connection Information. To connect to MYSQL, use the information provided in Table 1–5 to complete the Connect to Database step of the JDBC/ODBC OTD Wizard.

To connect Java application with the MySQL database, we need to follow 5 following steps.

In this example we are using MySql as the database. So we need to know following informations for the mysql database:

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1. Driver class: The driver class for the mysql database is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.
2. Connection URL: The connection URL for the mysql database is jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonoo where jdbc is the API, mysql is the database, localhost is the server name on which mysql is running, we may also use IP address, 3306 is the port number and sonoo is the database name. We may use any database, in such case, we need to replace the sonoo with our database name.
3. Username: The default username for the mysql database is root.
4. Password: It is the password given by the user at the time of installing the mysql database. In this example, we are going to use root as the password.

Let's first create a table in the mysql database, but before creating table, we need to create database first.

Example to Connect Java Application with mysql database

In this example, sonoo is the database name, root is the username and password both.

The above example will fetch all the records of emp table.

To connect java application with the mysql database, mysqlconnector.jar file is required to be loaded.

Two ways to load the jar file:

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1. Paste the mysqlconnector.jar file in jre/lib/ext folder
2. Set classpath

1) Paste the mysqlconnector.jar file in JRE/lib/ext folder:

2) Set classpath:

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How to set the temporary classpath

How to set the permanent classpath

Go to environment variable then click on new tab. In variable name write classpath and in variable value paste the path to the mysqlconnector.jar file by appending mysqlconnector.jar;.; as C:foldermysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar;.;