java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

[pallavi keskar]

Hi, I am working on one web project and i put the mysql-connector-java-5.1.12 driver in WEB-INF/lib folder but I am getting error ie "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver". Please help me... My code is

Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
out.print("driver");
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://ip/user?id=somestringvalue&password=somestringvalue");
out.print("connection");