Yes, this solution worked for me as well. I am deploying a Grails application and I was having issues with the Bootstrap process. The first object would be persisted, but the next obects would not and GF would throw the "source null" error. I reverted to the Connector J 5.0.8 driver and the problem disappeared. I suspect that this is a bug in the newer version of Connector J.
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