Anyone have trouble issuing a DELIMITER command via JDBC driver?

[Jon Rue]

I've run into problems trying to change the delimiter from Java programs. Whenever I issue the command DELIMITER $$ I receive the error:

Error code 1064, SQL state 42000: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'delimiter $$' at line 1.

I've looked through the bugs and this forum but have yet to see any similar issues. Is it just me? Here are the details of my setup:

MySQL 5.0.27 using both the Connector/J 3.1.14 and 5.0.3 driver.
Java 1.5.0_09, NetBeans 5.5 IDE