org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver was the original MySQL JDBC driver developed
by Mark Matthews in 1998.

In 2002 he joined MySQL and the driver became the basis for
the official MySQL JDBC driver.

A lot of documentation still refer to the old driver name.

And it still works - even new distributions from MySQL
has:

package org.gjt.mm.mysql;

import java.sql.SQLException;

public class Driver extends com.mysql.jdbc.Driver {
    public Driver() throws SQLException {
        super();
    }
}

I think using com.mysql.jdbc.Driver would be the nicest
code (after all then MySQL may someday remove that old
name), but functionally there will not be a difference.

Arne

Lew wrote on 15.12.2007 18:56:

Which is well documented in the manual