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21.4.3.5. Deploying Connector/MXJ within JBoss

For deployment of Connector/MXJ within a JBoss environment, you must configure the JBoss environment to use the Connector/MXJ component within the JDBC parameters:

  1. Download Connector/MXJ and copy the mysql-connector-mxj-gpl-[ver].jar file to the $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib directory.

    If you are using Connector/MXJ v5.0.4 or later you will also need to copy the mysql-connector-mxj-gpl-[ver]-db-files.jar file to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib.

  2. Download Connector/J and copy the mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar file to the $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib directory.

  3. Create an MBean service xml file in the $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy directory with any attributes set, for instance the datadir and autostart.

  4. Set the JDBC parameters of your web application to use: 

    String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String url = "jdbc:mysql:///test?propertiesTransform="+
             "com.mysql.management.jmx.ConnectorMXJPropertiesTransform";
String user = "root";
String password = "";
Class.forName(driver);
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);

You may wish to create a separate users and database table spaces for each application, rather than using "root and test".

We highly suggest having a routine backup procedure for backing up the database files in the datadir.