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Installing the JDBC Driver for Apache Tomcat

A quick guide to installing the JDBC driver for Apache Tomcat on Windows.

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  1. Download the MySQL JDBC Connector from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/3.1.html
  2. Unzip the file; you need the precompiled file “mysql-connector-java-5.x.y-bin.jar”
  3. Put this file in the Tomcat directory %CATALINA_HOME%\lib
  4. Restart the Tomcat service