Class Not Found Exception

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Hi
I am trying to connect to mysql on my jsp page using Eclipse.
I have declared my driver as:

Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();

and I get an error on runtime: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"

Can you help please

Thanks in advance.

Posted 16-May-11 4:21am

Dunisani

Updated 16-May-11 4:23am

RaviRanjanKr

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Nagy Vilmos · Answer 1 · 2011-05-16T04:40:00

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The reason is that jar is either not installed or not in the runtime path for the running process.
If you are running it on a client machine within a web-browser then it may well be sand-boxed to prevent 'bad things' [tm]

Posted 16-May-11 4:40am

Nagy Vilmos