Question

I am new to java based web service. I am able to create web service in java. I am made connection using ODBC connection to MySQL. I want to make connection using JDBC connection.

For that I included jar file (mysqlconnector.jar) in Build Path of project in Eclipse.

The problem is that it throws a ClassNotFoundException at the line where I used class of that jar file.

String URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbName";
        String USER = "root";
        String PASSWORD = "abc@123";
        String DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";// driver from the jar file
Class.forName(DRIVER);//gives exception here
con = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, USER, PASSWORD);//return null here

Answer 1

The required API also required at runtime, put it into WEB-INF/lib