No server-side prepared statements using MySQL Connector/J

Question

From what I understand, MySQL 5.1 supports server-side prepared statements. Therefore the following code should prepare the statement once, and execute it 10 times:

Answer 1

The Connector/J driver handles prepared statements locally unless you turn on real server side statements using the connection parameter useServerPrepStmts=true.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-reference-configuration-properties.html