README for Mark Matthews' MySQL JDBC Driver Version 1.1b

I developed this driver in hopes of having a stable,
full-featured JDBC driver for MySQL. I put it under the GNU
GPL to hopefully allow the net community to add to the
utility of the driver.
 
Much of the design can be traced to the PostgreSQL
driver which seems to be the most stable of the "Free"
drivers I've used.

The I/O with the MySQL server is derived from the
JMS package.

However, I have substantially changed the architecture of
the communications subsystem to allow the driver to be compliant
with the JDBC spec. It allows multiple Statements per Connection
and handles ResultSets not being fully iterated without invalidating
the packet handling for the communication to the server.

It also allows one to use the normal URL connection instead of the
Properties style of the TWZ driver. (although any method using 
java.sql.DriverManager should work).

The most recent version can be found at: 
        http://www.worldserver.com/mm.mysql/

I will also upload it to www.tcx.se soon after placing
it on my website.

Feel free to submit changes and or comments to this code.
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$Id: README,v 1.1.1.1 1998/08/24 16:37:35 mmatthew Exp $
