java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for localhost test [duplicate]

Answer 1

You will get this exception when the JDBC URL is not accepted by any of the loaded JDBC drivers as per the Driver#acceptsURL() method. You actually forgot the JDBC driver specific URI prefix. For the MySQL JDBC driver this is jdbc:mysql://. The full connection URL should look like this:

con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test", user, pass);

See also:

• Connector/J documentation - Obtaining a connection

Answer 2

This was giving that error:

Connection connection= DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/lib_db","root","root");

but when I changed that to:

Connection connection =DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/db_name?"+"user=root&password=root");

error was gone

Answer 3

I found another cause for this error message. In my case the user simply had no privilege to the database e.g. to the selected table. Dear driver developers, why do you use such misleading error messages? A lot of people have real trouble with this.

Answer 4

For me, it was forgetting to include the MySQLJDBC Driver in the project libraries. DOH!