No suitable driver?

[Dillinger4]

I have some code that i am using to connect to a database. The first couple of times i started the applet i was getting ClassNotfoundExceptions. I changed some suff in the autoexec.bat file but now it's changed to no suitable driver. Here's what i am using to create a new instance of the driver.

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

[nebulom]

Did you get the driver from somewhere? You might also be setting the .jar into your classpath variable.

[Dillinger4]

The driver was dl'ed straight from MySql's site. I had it installed properly before but i guess i had deleted it for some reason. Instead of setting the classpath to point to the .jar file i went the other route and extracted the .jar and set the claspath to point to com and org dirs.

[System_Error]

I just read that "no suitable driver" meant that your drive was loaded sucessfully, but the URL syntax is incorrect. Maybe check the URL that your providing to the DriverMananger?

[NoteMe]

jGuru.com is now a JupiterMedia page, so I dare to post a link to that page..:)

Here is a bunch of people having the same problem. And a lot of different things that went wrong. Go through the list and see if you have the same problem as one of them. Sorry for not having more help today..:)


http://jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=391334


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[Dillinger4]

System_Error. Thanks for replying. I kinda had a hunch that the Driver was loaded because Clas.forName() didn't throw a ClassNotFoundException. Yes jguru is now under the control of JupiterMedia. I am the FAQ manager for the Thread, Network and Collections FAQ's. :eek:

[System_Error]

What's bad about JupiterMedia?

[NoteMe]

What's bad about JupiterMedia?


Nothing is bad about JM...everything is great with JM...but they don't like us to post links like this.

"I think jGuru can help. Take a look here [URL]"

if it is not a JM site...;)


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