MySQL JDBC ClassNotFoundException

Question

Hi,
I am a second year student new to java. I am running a stand alone app using Java 5 and mysql 5 on windows xp and I am getting a CNF Exception when I try to execute the following code:
import java.sql.*;
public class JdbcTest {
public static void main(String args[]){
System.out.println("testing mysql jdbc");
try {
Statement stmt;
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql";
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,"root", "gomeNTil");
System.out.println("URL: " + url);
System.out.println("Connection: " + con);
stmt = con.createStatement();
stmt.executeUpdate("CREATE DATABASE myTest");
con.close();
//}catch(ClassNotFoundException a){
//     System.out.println(a.getMessage());
}catch( Exception e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}//end catch
}//end main
}//end class
I know that this is normally a classpath problem but I have set the path propely, but here it is (I included the hard line breaks for readability):
.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_09\lib\ext\QTJava.zip;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09\bin\javac.exe;
C:\Program Files\Java\jar\mysql-connector-java-5.0.4-bin.jar
I have been searching the forum and the net for several hours now and can't find any solution other than check my classpath.
This is the stackTrace. I hope someone can get more out of it than I can.
testing mysql jdbc
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 JdbcTest.main(JdbcTest.java:9)
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

1. Please use code tags when posting
2. I don't think it will solve your problem but you don need to call the new instance method on the end of this.
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
3. Make sure you have the name of the class correct and that the driver is in the class path correctly.