How to add the JDBC mysql driver to an Eclipse project?

Question

1. I have downloaded the mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar
2. I have created a lib folder in my project and put the jar in there.
3. properties of project->build path->add JAR and selected the JAR above.
4. I still get java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql//localhost:3306/mysql

I am using mysql 5.5 The code:

package DBTest;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * Servlet implementation class TenUsers
 */
@WebServlet("/TenUsers")
public class TenUsers extends HttpServlet {
    /**
     * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     */
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        String mySqlUrl = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql";

        Properties userInfo = new Properties();
        userInfo.put("user", "root");
        userInfo.put("password", "SabababArba");
        try{
            Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(mySqlUrl, userInfo);
        }catch(Exception e) {
            out.println(e);
        }      
    }
}

If I add Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); before Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(mySqlUrl, userInfo); I get java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Answer 1

Try to insert this:

DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.mysql.jdbc.Driver());

before getting the JDBC Connection.