Question

how to connect mysql database to desktop java application using jdbc ?
the environment is ubuntu 12.04 Lts i tried so many ways but all of them throw an exception on executing

 Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

the exception say :

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

the full code is :

import java.sql.*;

public class CRUDForGoods {
    private Connection connection ;
    public Vector<GoodsStore> goods ;

    public CRUDForGoods(){
        try{
           DriverManager.registerDriver(new JdbcOdbcDriver());
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:dbName","root", "root");



        }
           catch(Exception ex) {
            System.out.println("##connection");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Answer 1

com.mysql.jdbc.Driver not found while executing the code.

You need mysql connector to get it run (the jar includes com.mysql.jdbc.Driver). You can find it here

Download and include the jar file in your classpath.