Database connectivity in netbeans

Question

whenever i try connectin database using this code :
import java.sql.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.naming.*;
public class NewClass{
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Load the JDBC driver
System.out.println("Table Creation Example!");
Connection con = null;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/";
String dbName = "test";
String driverName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String userName = "ide";
String password = "NnEFchLb";
try{
Class.forName(driverName).newInstance();
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+dbName, userName, password);
try{
Statement st = con.createStatement();
String table = "CREATE TABLE Employee11(Emp_code integer, Emp_name varchar(10))";
st.executeUpdate(table);
System.out.println("Table creation process successfully!");
catch(SQLException s){
System.out.println("Table all ready exists!");
con.close();
catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
i get followin error:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
at NewClass.main(NewClass.java:21)
can anyone help me???

Answer 1

Hi bhavishya,
You just forgot to import the driver in your project :
- in your project, right-click on 'Libraries' then select 'Add Library ...';
- in the popup window, select 'Java DB driver' then click the 'Add Library' button