With more than three million users, MySQL is the most popular open source database server in the world. It's the most popular database server for Linux & also runs on Windows, Macintosh, FreeBSD and many flavors of Unix. In this text, the authors explain you everything you need to build database applications with MySQL and Java. This book is a complete and authoritative tutorial and reference on MySQL for Java and takes a hands-on, code intensive approach so you can learn easily.