JDBC character encoding

Question

I have a Java Web application running on GlassFish 3 and JPA (EclipseLink) on MySQL. The problem I\'m facing is that if I\'m saving entities to the database with the u

Answer 1

I had to add useUnicode=true as well, so I had to concat the parameters with '&' so it looks like this:

jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/warranteer?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8

If you're using maven profiles to set the MySQL URL, like me, make sure you put & instead & because maven unescape the url when writing the persistence.xml file to classes folder.