How do I instal Connector/J on windows 7?

java mysql windows jdbc connector-j
Aaron picture Aaron · Apr 24, 2011 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I need step by step instructions. I have downloaded if from the mysql website http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/java/

But now I am not to sure what to do from here? I'm sort of stuck..

Answer

BalusC picture BalusC · Apr 24, 2011

Just put the JAR file in the runtime classpath. This is not environment-dependent.

How exactly to do that depends on what kind of application it is. If it's for example a plain vanilla Java application which you execute by java.exe, then use the -cp argument to specify the classpath.

java -cp .;/path/to/mysql.jar com.example.Foo

The classpath is basically a collection of paths to JAR files and/or .class files where Java should look for class definitions.

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