Java DBbridge

Hello Frank! could you send me the java source too? I would greatly appreciate it my email address: [nhytro--compuserve--com] Any chance of skipping the Java part and just connectiong over TCP/IP? Mysql can be accessed somehow at port 3306, but I haveßnt found any useful documentation on this, not even at the mysql site. Regards Sharriff

Yes that would be great if you could connect MySql via TCP/IP. Would make everything so much easier. Java, ooh that scares me... Jeff

Hi Sharriff, I looked at it a while ago. The only documentation of the protocol is its open source implementation in Java - other languages connect to MySQL through its C client library, but Java and REBOL can't be linked against the library so they must communicate via TCP at port 3306. IMHO it would not be too hard to convert the relevant part of Java JDBC driver to REBOL. Unfortunately, the MySQL protocol is binary and not text like most Internet protocols, so it's not that easy to parse in REBOL. I wanted to try it myself but unfortunately I don't have time for it. The MM Mysql JDBC driver with source is at http://www.worldserver.com/mm.mysql/ so it would be great if anyone tried it. BTW just reading Java source and understanding what's going on is easier than writing programs in Java, so IMHO one doesn't have to be a Java expert to convert the driver to REBOL (and no, I'm not a Java expert either :-). Regards, Michal Kracik Sharriff Aina wrote: