problem with the connector

[panos karakontakis]

Hi i import the jar file mysql-connector-java-5.1.14-bin into the libraries but still the error message appears.

Couldn't connect: print out a stack trace and exit.
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown character set: 'utf8mb4'

Some help would be nice. Here is my code.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;


public class MySQL_Connection {

public MySQL_Connection()
{
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
System.err.println("Couldn't find driver class:");
cnfe.printStackTrace();
}

Connection c = null;

try {
c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/panos","root", "dei");

} catch (SQLException se) {
System.out.println("Couldn't connect: print out a stack trace and exit.");
se.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Statement s = null;
try {
s = c.createStatement();
} catch (SQLException se) {
System.out.println("We got an exception while creating a statement:" +
"that probably means we're no longer connected.");
se.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
}

ResultSet rs = null;
try {
rs = s.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM customers");
} catch (SQLException se) {
System.out.println("We got an exception while executing our query:" +
"that probably means our SQL is invalid");
se.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
}

int index = 0;


try {
while (rs.next()) {
System.out.println(rs.getString(1)+" "+rs.getString(2));
}
} catch (SQLException se) {
System.out.println("We got an exception while getting a result:this " +
"shouldn't happen: we've done something really bad.");
se.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
}
}
public static void main(String[] s)
{
new MySQL_Connection();
}
}