MySQL Connector/J
Oracle's official JDBC driver for MySQL, implementing both the standard JDBC API and the MySQL X DevAPI for Java client applications.
MySQL Connector/J is the official pure-Java driver that lets any JDBC-based application — application servers, connection pools, ORMs like Hibernate — talk to MySQL without a native client library. Alongside classic JDBC, it implements the MySQL X DevAPI, giving Java code a document-style CRUD interface over the X Protocol as an alternative to writing SQL directly.
It’s released under GPLv2 with a FOSS exception (the same dual-licensing model Oracle uses across the MySQL product line), developed in the mysql GitHub organization, and is currently at version 26.7.0 after more than 3,200 commits.
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