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Ummm...MySQLWorkbench *is* a Java GUI, you know. (Or maybe it's a C++ GUI, but since it came from Sun originally I'd bet on Java.)
In any case, what would MySQLWorkbench have to do with the question?
I, for one, still use the command line interface for virtually everything I do with MySQL. (Yes, I even use it for CREATE TABLE and for writing stored procedures.)
The *tool* you use to create and administer the database has nothing to do with any other application that *uses* the database.
So the short answer to your question is: YES!
The longer answer: You could use the same database with Java, with JSP, with PHP, with ASP, with ASP.NET, with C++, with Python, with ... Well, with any client. **ALL AT THE SAME TIME**.
Understand that MySQL is a *server*. It runs in its own process. All these other programs (yes, including a WEB server) run in *their* own processes. They NEVER share the process with MySQL. Instead, commands and data are passed back and forth between the applications and the MySQL server via some communications channel. That's what the "port number" you see associated with MySQL is for: the "channel" by which it communicates with applications.
Incidentally, MySQLWorkbench is *NOT* special in any way. It, too, runs in its own process space and communicates with MySQL the same way. If you wanted to, you could create your own "ChettyWorkbench" that would duplicate all the MySQLWorkbench does.
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