Question

I pretend to build a java application with a derby database embedded. However, I can’t establish a connection with my database. After following some tutorials I found on Internet, I ended up adding this code to my main method.

String dbms = "jdbc:derby:database;create=true";
String uName = "admin";
String uPass= "pass";

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbms, uName, uPass);

But I get the following error: "No suitable driver found for jdbc:derby...."
Strange is that if I use a not embedded connection like this:

String dbms = "jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/database";

The connection works. Am i missing some file on libraries or something, in a tutorial i found it was saying to add the “derbyclient.jar” to the libraries of the project, but still not working!

Answer 1

If you’re using the embedded version of Derby then the derbyclient.jar isn’t enough. You’ll need to include the full derby.jar library.