JDBC CLASSPATH Not Working

Question

I\'m setting up a simple JDBC connection to my working MySQL database on my server. I\'m using the Connector-J provided by MySQL. According to their documentation, I\'m supp

Answer 1

You seem to be working on a linux box. Make sure that your terminal launches a login shell. For example the gnome-terminal application (probably what you are using if you are using a ubuntu or fedora box for development) has a checkbox under the profile preferences > Title and command menu called "run command as a login shell". Check that and make sure you also put this code in the ~/.bash_profile file at the end.

export CLASSPATH=/path/mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar:$CLASSPATH

But i would argue against doing this and doing a simple launch script for your application. Something similar to this:

#!/bin/bash

Set CLASSPATH=CLASSPATH=/path/mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar:$CLASSPATH

java -cp "$CLASSPATH" 

make executable and use that to launch your application.