I'm having issues trying to use the Connector/J JDBC driver in my code.
The code I have written uses the Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance() to load the class before DriverManager.getConnection() is used to load the driver.
This results in the ClassNotFoundException for com.mydql.jdbc.Driver. I have the binary JAR file for the mysql connector, mysql-connector-java-5.1.26-bin.jar.
My code is packaged into a JAR file by building in Netbeans.
To run the code I am using the following
java -classpath "/path/to/mysql-connector-java-5.1.26-bin.jar" -jar MyJarFile.jar
This gives the exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Adding System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.class.path")); to the beginning of the program prints only MyJarFile.jar.
I have tried adding the jar file to the CLASSPATH variable using export, and setting the last part of the -classpath flag to lib/*, but with the same results.
I tried running the program from a .class file, instead. It complained about being unable to find or load the main class. It would run only when both the wildcard was used in the classpath and the MyJarFile.jar was in that location. It would simply hang at the loading of the Driver, though.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what is going on?