optimized insert - bulk copy (possible?)

[Eris Segala]

Hi there,
i'm porting a database from PostgreSQL to MySQL.
In Postgres we use for optimized insert a specific class, in detail the code is:

PGConnection underlyingconnection = null;
// org.postgresql.PGConnection
CopyManager copy = null;
//org.postgresql.copy.CopyManager
InputStream fileIn = null;
try {
fileIn = new FileInputStream(newTempFile);
underlyingconnection = connection.unwrap(PGConnection.class);
copy = underlyingconnection.getCopyAPI();
etc..

There is something similar in MySQL J/Connector? I hear about LOAD_DATA but i'm not sure specific to this function..
THANKS in advance.