How to connect to a database created in using ANT - mysql

Question

I need to connect to "mydb" database created in MySQL 5.5.
I figured out from http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/sql.html that following should do the job, but ti does not.
<sql
driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/broadleaf"
userid="root"
password="password">
</sql>
Then in the other post that following could be used to start and stop MySQL using ANT:
<target name="start-db">
<exec executable="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" osfamily="windows">
</exec>
<exec executable="mysql.server" osfamily="unix">
<arg value="start"/>
</exec>
</target>
<target name="stop-db">
<exec executable="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" osfamily="windows">
<arg value="-u"/>
<arg value="root"/>
<arg value="shutdown"/>
</exec>
<exec executable="mysql.server" osfamily="unix">
<arg value="stop"/>
</exec>
</target>
Could someone tell me how to glue both these scripts together to start MySQL database and then connect to a particular database (ex. mydb) using an ANT script? And similarly stop the database and disconnect from that database (mysql).
Thanks.

Answer 1

Are you asking how to tie everything together in a complete ANT script?
<project name="database-stuff" default="make-it-so">
<target name="make-it-so" depends="start-db,run-sql,stop-db"/>
<target name="start-db">
<exec executable="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" osfamily="windows">
</exec>
<exec executable="mysql.server" osfamily="unix">
<arg value="start"/>
</exec>
</target>
<target name="stop-db">
<exec executable="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" osfamily="windows">
<arg value="-u"/>
<arg value="root"/>
<arg value="shutdown"/>
</exec>
<exec executable="mysql.server" osfamily="unix">
<arg value="stop"/>
</exec>
</target>
<target name="run-sql">
<sql driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/broadleaf"
userid="root"
password="password">
-- SQL STATEMENTS GO HERE!!
</sql>
</target>
</project>
If not you'll have to provide more details of the kind of error you're experiencing.