Developer Documentation Since there are many good tutorials out there for using JDBC and they should work with any JDBC driver, I will point novice JDBC developers to them rather than re-invent the wheel. Getting Started with JDBC (from JavaSoft, start here) JDBC - A Persistant Storage for Java Objects MM.MySQL Specific Documentation This document used to have a short synopsis of what was required to get the driver up and running. There is now a better document included in this distribution in the mm.doc directory, named book1.html. This is created from DOCBOOK sources, and although still a work in progress, is much more complete than the documentation that originally came with the driver.