Datasource overview
A datasource is a component used to connect to a database. Through the datasource, an application can persist its state (generally speaking) to reuse it later on.
A datasource can connect to any database, as long as the application server provides a connector for it, which is the driver.
JBoss EAP 7 requires that all drivers must be compliant with the JDBC 4 specification. We will see this in detail in the following sections.
Prerequisites
Before we begin, we should have MySQL 5 installed on the system. In case you don't have it set up, it's time to take a dive into the operational world and install what is needed, and it's not just MySQL.
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