Failure in loading JDBC driver

[abdennad]

Hi:

I tried to run the following piece of code but it failed to load the JDBC
driver and generated an exception.

--------------------------- JAVA CODE -----------------------

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;

public class mysqltest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {

// Load the driver
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();

} catch (Exception ex) {
// handle the error
System.out.println("main: Exception: " + ex.getCause() );
}
}

}

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1- First I compiled it as follows:

D:\javatest\mysqltest>javac -classpath mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar mysqltest.java

2 - Then I run it without the debugger as follows:

D:\javatest\mysqltest>java -classpath mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar mysqltestcls

and I got this output on the console:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: mysqltest


3 - Then I run it through the debugger as follows:

D:\javatest\mysqltest>jdb -classpath mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar mysqltest

and I got this output on the console:

Initializing jdb ...
> run
run mysqltest
Set uncaught java.lang.Throwable
Set deferred uncaught java.lang.Throwable
>
VM Started:
Exception occurred: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException (uncaught)"thread=main", java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(), line=200 bci=72

main[1] cont
>
Exception occurred: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException (uncaught)"thread=main", java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(), line=205 bci=28

main[1] cont
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: mysqltest
Exception in thread "main"
The application exited

D:\javatest\mysqltest>


Do you have any idea what is going on and how I can interpret the errors

I am running the tests and compilations on a laptop with XP Pro SP2, JDBC 3.1.8

Thank you,

Akram.