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

Load Driver class just before getting the connection.

Use this code:

Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test_db", "user", "passw");