Where to find and where to put JDBC driver to connect to mysql database?

Question

Java

You need to connect to mysql database. To do this, I download the jdbc driver from here https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/installer/... (a certain installer is downloaded here in which there is no jdbc file, so I opened the archive with this driver). I go into the archive, there is another archive called mysql-connector-java-5.1.49-bin.jar, in it, instead of the driver I need, there are three folders com, meta-inf and org, I did not find the necessary driver in any of them. I don’t understand where to find and download the necessary archive with this driver and where to place it later in order to connect with the database. Help please, tell me.

Answer 1

1. Here: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ (choose platform independent)
2. Or here: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-con...