how to tanslate this Cloudscape-specific database operation into a mysql operation

[jing chen]

I am working on a project to make a simple addressbook,and I have an example which is implimented by using Clouscape(the database),and I use Java for the programming langguage,anybody can help me tranlate this into mysql descripssion:

// reference to prepared statement for determining personID
private PreparedStatement sqlPersonID;

// Obtain personID for last person inserted in database.
// [This is a Cloudscape-specific database operation.]
sqlPersonID = connection.prepareStatement(
"VALUES ConnectionInfo.lastAutoincrementValue( " +
"'APP', 'NAMES', 'PERSONID')" );


the Table I want to changed is NAMES
NAMES:
PERSONID --not null,auto increment ,key
Firstname varchar;
lastname varchar;