Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. This is a release of MySQL Connector/J, a JDBC Type 4 driver for MySQL that also supports the new X DevAPI. License information can be found in the LICENSE file. This distribution may include materials developed by third parties. For license and attribution notices for these materials, please refer to the LICENSE file. For more information on MySQL Connector/J, visit https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/ For additional downloads and the source of MySQL Connector/J, visit https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL Connector/J is brought to you by the MySQL team at Oracle. Notice: - In order to use the logging capabilities provided by the default implementation com.mysql.cj.log.Slf4JLogger, it is required to add one or more jars for Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) to your CLASSPATH. - To use the X DevAPI features in Connector/J, you also need the external library protobuf-java, which you can download manually from the official Maven repository and add it to the CLASSPATH, or use Maven's automatic dependency resolution features by adding a dependency to "GroupId: com.mysql" and "ArtifactId: mysql-connector-j" to your project's pom.xml file. - To use OCI AIM authentication, you will need to add the external library oci-java-sdk-common, which you can download manually from the official Maven repository and add it to the CLASSPATH, or use Maven's automatic dependency resolution features by adding a dependency to "GroupId: com.oracle.oci.sdk" and "ArtifactId: oci-java-sdk-common" to your project's pom.xml file.