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

[Srinivas Marripudi]

Hi, I also had the same issue whereas my environment was Eclipse 3.2, Tomcat 5.5 & MySQL. The Exception I was confronting was FileNotFoundException. I added the mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar to Eclipse project build path but the Exception was still there.

I came across this topic "Configuring MySQL Database and the Data Source" during my search for answers : http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/152270_1.htm

To summarise I copied the MySQL driver JAR file to the server's lib folder. Also I wrote up a file similar to DBTest.xml, as mentioned in the above article. Copied the file to the configuration dir of the server. It worked for me !