No suitable driver found for jdbc mysql?

Question

I am trying to write a program to connect to a MySQL database in eclipse, but I get the error \"java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found\".

The java

Answer 1

For all but the most trivial applications the CLASSPATH environment variable is NOT used. Normally the libraries are include in the Class-Path entry in the manifest of the jar, or in the -cp option of the java commandline.

In this case you need to add the MySQL JDBC driver to the buildpath of your Eclipse project.