J2Ee And Mysql Connectivity

Can anyone please guide me in installing mysql and connecting j2ee with mysql from the beginning(step-by-step),im using tomcat 6.0?How to create a datasource name in mysql?please it would be of great help....advance thanks

Can anyone please guide me in installing mysql and connecting j2ee with mysql from the beginning(step-by-step),im using tomcat 6.0?How to create a datasource name in mysql?please it would be of great help....advance thanks

the above tutorial will surely help out. I did the same with help of this tutorial.
but first downlaod the connector from http://dev.mysql.com/ than install the .jar file that comes with Connector/J in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib so that it is available to all applications installed in the container.

Next, Configure the JNDI DataSource by adding a declaration resource to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml in the context that defines your web application:

<Context ....>  ...  <Resource name="jdbc/MySQLDB"               auth="Container"               type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>  <!-- The name you used above, must match _exactly_ here!       The connection pool will be bound into JNDI with the name       "java:/comp/env/jdbc/MySQLDB"  -->  <ResourceParams name="jdbc/MySQLDB">    <parameter>      <name>factory</name>      <value>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory</value>    </parameter>    <!-- Don't set this any higher than max_connections on your         MySQL server, usually this should be a 10 or a few 10's         of connections, not hundreds or thousands -->    <parameter>      <name>maxActive</name>      <value>10</value>    </parameter>    <!-- You don't want to many idle connections hanging around         if you can avoid it, only enough to soak up a spike in         the load -->    <parameter>      <name>maxIdle</name>      <value>5</value>    </parameter>    <!-- Don't use autoReconnect=true, it's going away eventually         and it's a crutch for older connection pools that couldn't         test connections. You need to decide whether your application         is supposed to deal with SQLExceptions (hint, it should), and         how much of a performance penalty you're willing to pay         to ensure 'freshness' of the connection -->    <parameter>      <name>validationQuery</name>      <value>SELECT 1</value> <-- See discussion below for update to this option -->    </parameter>   <!-- The most conservative approach is to test connections        before they're given to your application. For most applications        this is okay, the query used above is very small and takes        no real server resources to process, other than the time used        to traverse the network.        If you have a high-load application you'll need to rely on        something else. -->    <parameter>      <name>testOnBorrow</name>      <value>true</value>    </parameter>   <!-- Otherwise, or in addition to testOnBorrow, you can test        while connections are sitting idle -->    <parameter>      <name>testWhileIdle</name>      <value>true</value>    </parameter>    <!-- You have to set this value, otherwise even though         you've asked connections to be tested while idle,         the idle evicter thread will never run -->    <parameter>      <name>timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis</name>      <value>10000</value>    </parameter>    <!-- Don't allow connections to hang out idle too long,         never longer than what wait_timeout is set to on the         server...A few minutes or even fraction of a minute         is sometimes okay here, it depends on your application         and how much spikey load it will see -->    <parameter>      <name>minEvictableIdleTimeMillis</name>      <value>60000</value>    </parameter>    <!-- Username and password used when connecting to MySQL -->    <parameter>     <name>username</name>     <value>someuser</value>    </parameter>    <parameter>     <name>password</name>     <value>somepass</value>    </parameter>    <!-- Class name for the Connector/J driver -->    <parameter>       <name>driverClassName</name>       <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>    </parameter>    <!-- The JDBC connection url for connecting to MySQL, notice         that if you want to pass any other MySQL-specific parameters         you should pass them here in the URL, setting them using the         parameter tags above will have no effect, you will also         need to use & to separate parameter values as the         ampersand is a reserved character in XML -->    <parameter>      <name>url</name>      <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test</value>    </parameter>  </ResourceParams></Context>