Question

I am having problems loading the MySQL JDBC driver. I have tried everything mentioned here, but am still running into problems.

The error I get is this:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.driver
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
    at Main.main(Main.java:12)

My code is as follows:

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;

public class Main {

   public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

      //accessing the driver
      Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.driver");

      // creating variable to pass the connection information into
      Connection dbcon = DriverManager.getConnection(
            "jdbc:mysql//localhost:3306/test", "root", "root");

      PreparedStatement statement = dbcon
            .prepareStatement("select * from names");

      ResultSet result = statement.executeQuery();

      while (result.next()) {
         System.out.println(result.getString(2));

      }
   }
}

As you can see above I have placed the driver in the lib folder and I have also put it into the Apache tomcat lib folder, because that was suggested as well.

Thank you for any help you can give me.
Andrew

Answer 1

It tells you the problem on the first line of your stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.driver

The driver name is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver (capital D).