Question

I’m trying to write a simple Applet which must get text data from database.

I have some problems:

• I have remote mysql db or i can create a local db, what would be the
  most correct?

• I have downloaded mysql-connector-java-5.1.22-bin.jar and put it to
  my applet source directory

  yakoot@yakoot-home:~/java$ echo $CLASSPATH
  /home/yakoot/java/mysql-connector-java-5.1.22-bin.jar

but when I try,

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

I see

error: unreported exception ClassNotFoundException; must be caught or
declared to be thrown

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

I tried some different locations for mysql-connector-java-5.1.22-bin.jar, but it did not help

Answer 1

Put your MySQL JAR File in Class Folder Instead. i.e. if you are using netbeans you need to choose include library/JAR Folder. then browse mysql-connector-java-5.1.22-bin.jar file.
Then rebuild the source and run again.