Trying to get my java program connected to MySQL

Question

This works perfectly in the Eclipse IDE area that I have but when I run the same program on the Net Beans 3.6 IDE area it gives me a 'not suitable driver' error. To note these are both on the same computer. I would really like to get the Net Beans 3.6 IDE working because that is what I am most familiar with using. If you know of the problem why one IDE area recognizes the driver where the next does not I would sure like to know. Somebody passed the idea that when the 3.6 area is executed there are multiple instances running and it resets the ClassPath(I think they where shooting in the dark but it is a lead none the less). Anyway if anybody has had this problem please enlighten me, Thank-You.
The ClassPath is set to the following:
ClassPath = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\lib;C:\unzipped\mysql-connector- java-3.1.7\mysql-connector-java-3.1.7;C:\Program Files
\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\jre\lib\ext;
This is the code:
import java.sql.*;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
public class Connect2 {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          try {
               // The newInstance() call is a work around for some
               // broken Java implementations
               Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
          } catch (Exception ex) {
               System.out.println("HERE");
          try {
               String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/test";
               String username = "root";
               String password = "password";
               Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
                         "jdbc:mysql://localhost/test", "root", "password");
               Statement c = conn.createStatement();
               c.execute("insert into green values('richmond')");
               c.execute("select * from green");
               ResultSet rs = c.getResultSet();
               while (rs.next()) {
                    System.out.println(rs.getString(1));
               // Do something with the Connection
          } catch (SQLException ex) {
               // handle any errors
               System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
               System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState());
               System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode());
}

Answer 1

There are some oddities with the DriverManager when it comes to registering drivers taken from a different ClassLoader, though I don't see how that would apply here, unless the IDE itself is loading one of the classes.
There's a facility in DriverManager to enumerate the registered drivers. It might be worth doing that and seeing their class names.