Problem while trying to connect to mySql server via JDBC...

[vroxopoios]

I am using a very simple Java program for connecting to an also simple mySql database. I am using J2SE v.1.4.1, mySql v. 4.1 and the 3.1.5-gamma version of the mysql connector/J. I have of course installed the connector as specified in the documentation, by copying the 'mysql-connector-java-3.1.5-gamma-bin.jar' file in the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext directory, which is also declared in the CLASSPATH environment variable.

The code is very simple, something like this:
.....
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
} catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Problem Description: " + e.getMessage());
}

String username = "root";
String password = "root";
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/test";

try
{
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);
//Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:///test?user=root&password=root");

Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;

stmt = con.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT ....");
......
} catch (SQLException se)
{
System.out.println(se.getSQLState());
System.out.println(se.getMessage());
}

Although everything is kept as simple as possible, and should be working according to the documentation, the following errors occur when running the code:

Problem Description: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
-----> from the 1st try-catch block

08001
No suitable driver
-------> from the 2nd try-catch block

I have tried to create the Connection object using both ways as seen from the code fragment above, but with no luck eitherways...
Please note that I haven't written Java code for a long time, so there might be a chance that there is a coding error from my part, although I think that's not the case...
It is not my first time dealing with JDBC though; I have used Oracle DBMS and driver succesfully in the past. But is seems that we are not getting along well with mySql so far :(

Any ideas? Sorry for the long post.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.