Java+MSQL: jdbc doesn't read options from my.ini/my.cnf?

Question

MySQL

Hey!
Registered user / pass in the file C: / my.ini

[client]
user=root
password=123456

I check - now you can connect to the database from the command line without entering a password.
But from a Java application - no:

SQLException: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO)

The code looks simple:

DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb")

Is there any way to make mysql-connector pull user/pass from my.ini/my.cnf ?
And are there any other ways to get around without explicitly specifying the password in jdbc?

Answer 1

MySQL does not store usernames/passwords in the config file. Everything lies in a special table in MySQL itself.