Hi,

I am trying to connect to a remote MySQL database using Java.  I used
the driver org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver but it doesn't seem to help.  I
would appreciate if anybody could guide me through this as I am
learning programming.

Thank you,

Best,
Madhura

madhura wrote on 15.12.2007 03:26:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to connect to a remote MySQL database using Java.  I used
> the driver org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver but it doesn't seem to help.  I
> would appreciate if anybody could guide me through this as I am
> learning programming.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-usagenotes-basic.html

Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> 
> 
> madhura wrote on 15.12.2007 03:26:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to connect to a remote MySQL database using Java.  I used
>> the driver org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver but it doesn't seem to help.  I
>> would appreciate if anybody could guide me through this as I am
>> learning programming.
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-usagenotes-basic.html
T

Madhura - take note that you're aiming for the wrong driver.  You want 
com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.

-- 
Lew

Lew wrote:
> Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> madhura wrote on 15.12.2007 03:26:
>>> I am trying to connect to a remote MySQL database using Java.  I used
>>> the driver org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver but it doesn't seem to help.  I
>>> would appreciate if anybody could guide me through this as I am
>>> learning programming.
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-usagenotes-basic.html
> 
> Madhura - take note that you're aiming for the wrong driver.  You want 
> com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.

org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver was the original MySQL JDBC driver developed
by Mark Matthews in 1998.

In 2002 he joined MySQL and the driver became the basis for
the official MySQL JDBC driver.

A lot of documentation still refer to the old driver name.

And it still works - even new distributions from MySQL
has:

package org.gjt.mm.mysql;

import java.sql.SQLException;

public class Driver extends com.mysql.jdbc.Driver {
	public Driver() throws SQLException {
		super();
	}
}

I think using com.mysql.jdbc.Driver would be the nicest
code (after all then MySQL may someday remove that old
name), but functionally there will not be a difference.

Arne

Lew wrote on 15.12.2007 18:56:
> Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>>
>>
>> madhura wrote on 15.12.2007 03:26:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to connect to a remote MySQL database using Java.  I used
>>> the driver org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver but it doesn't seem to help.  I
>>> would appreciate if anybody could guide me through this as I am
>>> learning programming.
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-usagenotes-basic.html
> T
> 
> Madhura - take note that you're aiming for the wrong driver.  You want 
> com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.

Which is well documented in the manual