Developers should also be careful that they are no longer referencing the old MySQL JDBC driver. The old com.mysql.jdbc.Driver should not be used anymore. Newer Hiberante and JPA 3 implementations ...

The Type 4 JDBC driver is the most common of all the JDBC drivers. Most of the popular databases, including DB2, Derby, HSQLDB and MySQL, make them available for Java applications. You may hear talk ...