Help with connection to mysql database, Getting error : No suitable Driver

Question

Below is my code :
1) i have added the mysql driver (mm.mysql-2.0.14-bin.jar)in my classpath
2) the code is getting compiling properly
3) while running it using tomcat, it says "NO SUITABLE DRIVER"
PLEASE HELP !!
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class logincheck extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
Connection con = null;
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
response.setContentType("text/html");
PreparedStatement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
String userid = request.getParameter("userid");
String password = request.getParameter("password");
try {
/** LOADING THE DRIVER FOR MYSQL DATABASE ***/
Class.forName ("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} //End of try-catch 1
try{
     /*** CONNECTING TO THE DATABASE USING DATABASE NAME, USERNAME AND PASSWORD */
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:8080/own");
/****** this checks whether the entry for the user is in the database *****/
stmt = con.prepareStatement("SELECT *FROM userinfo WHERE userid = ? AND passwd = ?");
stmt.setString(1,userid);
stmt.setString(2,password);
rs = stmt.executeQuery();
if(!rs.next())
else
     /****************** IF THE USER AND PASSWORD ARE VALID *****************/
//} // END OF RS.....
// NEED HTML FOR INVALID USERID SHOWING MESSAGE ...
con.close();
}catch(SQLException esql){
System.out.println(esql.getMessage());
} // End of try-catch 2
} // goGet
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
doGet(request, response);
} // goPost
} // end logincheck function ...

Answer 1

And i see another thing that confuses me. Your URL connection string is
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:8080/own"); meaning that your database is in your machine and listens in port 8080 for incoming connections. But that is the default port that Tomcat listens! Maybe you should change this line to
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/own");where 3306 is MySQL's default port.
Hope these help.