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

I encountered the same problem as you, but I handled it as follows: I copied the jar, which is called mysql-connector-java-5.1.23-bin.jar, into the \Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\lib, and restarted tomcat. Hope that helps