UNIX socket implementation for Java?

Question

I realize that since UNIX sockets are platform-specific, there has to be some non-Java code involved. Specifically, we're interested in using JDBC to connect to a MySQL instance which only has UNIX domain sockets enabled.

It doesn't look like this is supported, but from what I've read it should be at least possible to write a SocketFactory for JDBC based on UNIX sockets if we can find a decent implementation of UNIX sockets for Java.

Has anyone tried this? Does anyone know of such an implementation?

Answer 1

Check out the JNA library. It's a halfway house between pure Java and JNI native code

https://jna.dev.java.net/

Answer 2

Checkout the JUDS library. It is a Java Unix Domain Socket library...

http://code.google.com/p/juds/

Answer 3

As a rather unpleasant workaround, you could potentially use UnixODBC; I think its MySQL driver supports UNIX sockets.

Answer 4

Why not just use the JDBC driver for MySQL?

Answer 5

Some searching on the internet has uncovered the following useful-looking library:

http://www.nfrese.net/software/gnu_net_local/overview.html

Writing a socket factory should be easy enough. Once you've done so, you can pass it to your driver THUSLY.

Answer 6

You could use junixsocket (released August 2009): http://code.google.com/p/junixsocket/

It already provides code for connecting to MySQL from Java (Connector/J) via Unix sockets.