Previous versions
of
Oxygen XML Developer
(up to version
11.2) included a built-in type of data sources called
MySQL and based on the JDBC
driver for the MySQL 4 server. That type of data source is still available but is marked
outdated because it does not support more recent versions of the MySQL server
(starting from version 5.0) and it will be removed in a future version of
Oxygen XML Developer
.For
connecting to a MySQL server you should create a new data source of type Generic JDBC based on
the
MySQL JDBC driver available from the MySQL website. The steps for configuring such a
data source are the following: