MySQL and JDBC Classpath errors

Question

I am new to Java and installed MySql and also installed mysql-connectorJ driver. I can compile the code below, but when I go to run it, I get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: JDBCDemo/class" error. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
public class JDBCDemo {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          try{  
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
          catch (Exception e)
               e.printStackTrace();
I have a the following environment variable called MySQL_Driver located at "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\lib".
Path = "%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared;%JAVA_HOME%;%JAVA_HOME%\lib;%JAVA_VM%\bin;%JAVA_VM%\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;%MySQL_Driver%"

Answer 1

What is your CLASSPATH set to as you need to make sure that the driver is in the path as well as the directory/jar where the JDBCDemo app lives.
Try explictly specifying everything via the -classpath option on your java command line