This is a feature request to add the "Replication" boolean property to the SQL Server connection in the mssql-jdbc driver so that it can be configured by setting the property in the url and/or in the connection properties, something like this:

db.driver=com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
db.url=jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:59706;databaseName=symchuck;replication=true
db.connection.properties=replication=true;

This property is available through the SQLConnectionSringBuilder in ADO.Net and it would be nice to have it available in jdbc as well.