The easiest method of installation is to use the binary
distribution of the Connector/J package. The binary distribution
is available either as a Tar/Gzip or Zip file which you must
extract to a suitable location and then optionally make the
information about the package available by changing your
CLASSPATH
(see
Section 17.3.2.2, “Installing the Driver and Configuring the CLASSPATH
”).
MySQL Connector/J is distributed as a .zip or .tar.gz archive
containing the sources, the class files, and the JAR archive
named
mysql-connector-java-
,
and starting with Connector/J 3.1.8 a debug build of the driver
in a file named
[version]
-bin.jarmysql-connector-java-
.
[version]
-bin-g.jar
Starting with Connector/J 3.1.9, the .class
files that constitute the JAR files are only included as part of
the driver JAR file.
You should not use the debug build of the driver unless
instructed to do so when reporting a problem or a bug, as it is
not designed to be run in production environments, and will have
adverse performance impact when used. The debug binary also
depends on the Aspect/J runtime library, which is located in the
src/lib/aspectjrt.jar
file that comes with
the Connector/J distribution.
You will need to use the appropriate graphical or command-line utility to extract the distribution (for example, WinZip for the .zip archive, and tar for the .tar.gz archive). Because there are potentially long file names in the distribution, we use the GNU tar archive format. You will need to use GNU tar (or an application that understands the GNU tar archive format) to unpack the .tar.gz variant of the distribution.
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