Specified Class is not a Driver. Can't add MySQL Connector/J 8.0 to Netbeans 8.0
问题 I can't get MySQL 8.0 jdbc driver set up in Netbeans. Can anyone help? My Netbeans 8.0 IDE was set up using an older version of the MySQL JDBC Driver, 5.1.23. I upgraded MySQL to 8.0 and am trying to setup a new JDBC Driver in Netbeans because the old driver isn't able to connect to the new DB (*see note at end). These are the steps I followed. Step 1: I removed the old mysql driver jar file from D:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0\ide\modules\ext and copied the new mysql-connector-java-8.0.12.jar