How to add JDBC Driver to my CLASSPATH

Question

Hi~
I use MySQL JDBC Driver in my program like that
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");But when I try to run it, I got a ClassNoFound Exception,I hava add mysql-connector-java-5.0.3-bin.jar into my CLASSPATH, but it no use.How to fix it ?
Thanks for your time~ ^_^

Answer 1

Here's my code, Thank you very much. But I suggest that,you'd better write your own code to test it. Hehe,thanks~~
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class DBTest {
     private static Connection getConnection(String url, String username, String password)
          throws SQLException, IOException{
               try{
                    Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
               }catch(ClassNotFoundException e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
          return DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
     private static void runTest(){
          Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System.in);
          String serverUrl, username, password;
          serverUrl = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test";;
          username = stdin.nextLine();
          password = stdin.nextLine();
          Connection conn =null;
          try{
               conn = getConnection(serverUrl, username, password);
          }catch(SQLException e){
               e.printStackTrace();
          }catch(IOException e){
               e.printStackTrace();
          }finally{
          try{
               Statement stat;
               if(conn != null){
                     stat = conn.createStatement();
                     stat.executeUpdate("CREATE TABLE Greetings (Message VARCHAR(20))");
                     stat.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO Greetings VALUES('Hello mysql')");
                     ResultSet result = stat.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Greetings");
                     result.next();
                     System.out.println(result.getString(1));
               //      stat.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE Greetings");
          }catch(SQLException e){
               e.printStackTrace();
          }finally{
               try{
                    if(conn != null)
                         conn.close();
               }catch(SQLException e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
     public static void main(String args[]){
          runTest();          
}