JDBC and MySQL
This document describes how to set up your Arch system so MySQL Databases can be accessed via Java programs.
Contents
Installation
Installing MySQL
Install a MySQL implementation.
There are now two "fixes" you have to make. Firstly edit the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf to allow network access. Find the line with skip_networking in and comment it out so it looks like this:
#skip-networking
Finally start mysql service up.
Installing JDBC
Install a JDBC driver according to your MySQL variant:
- mariadb-jdbcAUR - For the Arch Linux endorsed server.
- mysql-jdbcAUR - For the Oracle variant.
You can also download the latter from http://www.mysql.com/products/connector-j/ and
( x=mysql-connector-java-*-bin.jar; install -D $x /usr/lib/jvm/default/jre/lib/ext/${x##*/} )
Testing
To access MySQL's command line tool,
$ mysql
Creating the test database
The following commands create a database and allow a user user. You will need to change the user name to whatever yours is.
create database emotherearth; grant all privileges on emotherearth.* to user@localhost identified by "user"; flush privileges;
Now press Ctrl+d to exit the command line tool.
Creating the test program
Use an editor to create a file DBDemo.java with the following code in it. You will need to change the username and password appropriately.
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Properties;
public class DBDemo
{
    // The JDBC Connector Class.
    private static final String dbClassName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    // Connection string. emotherearth is the database the program
    // is connecting to. You can include user and password after this
    // by adding (say) ?user=paulr&password=paulr. Not recommended!
    private static final String CONNECTION =
                          "jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/emotherearth";
    public static void main(String[] args) throws
                             ClassNotFoundException,SQLException
    {
        System.out.println(dbClassName);
        // Class.forName(xxx) loads the jdbc classes and
        // creates a drivermanager class factory
        Class.forName(dbClassName);
        // Properties for user and password. Here the user and password are both 'paulr'
        Properties p = new Properties();
        p.put("user","paulr");
        p.put("password","paulr");
        // Now try to connect
        Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection(CONNECTION,p);
        System.out.println("It works !");
        c.close();
    }
}
Running the program
To compile and run the program enter:
javac DBDemo.java java DBDemo
and hopefully, it should print out:
This is the database connection com.mysql.jdbc.Driver It works !