Does anyone know if there are plans to add support for JDBC 4.0 to the MySQL
and the java connector?
I'm particularly interested in support for the
Connection.createQueryObject(Class cls) method.

Thanks.

Steven Buroff wrote:
If you use google to search site:bugs.mysql.com for keywords "jdbc 4.0",
you'll see several bugs in which Mark Matthews (MySQL's connector
developer) mentions how changes to MySQL Connector/J relates to proposed
features of JDBC 4.0. It's clear that he has been tracking the
development of the JDBC 4.0 specification.

So I would assume that MySQL has intentions to support JDBC 4.0, once
the specification is finalized.

JDBC 4.0 is defined in JSR-000221, and it started the "proposed final
draft" part of the process 2006-07-19, less than one month ago. So it
has another round of revisions to go before it's finalized. I don't
know how long that will take, but the whole project has been going on
for three years so far, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

The other question is whether the feature you're interested in is
required for compliance with the JDBC 4.0 spec, or if it's optional for
a given vendor to implement it. The Query Object interface is not
listed in section 7 as a feature required for JDBC 4.0 compliance.

Regards,
Bill K.