Connect to Remote MySQL Host from Windows 7 (1 reply)

Hi.

I am trying to access a MySQL database on a remote Ubuntu host from my local laptop running Eclipse on Windows 7.

I have loaded mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar from Oracle-MySQL

My little Java test to load driver failed with following error message:
Error: Cannot find MySQL JDBC Driver!

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:190)
at aboutMySQL.LoadDriver.main(LoadDriver.java:15)




I am using Widnows 7 and this is my CLASSPATH:
%JAVA_HOME%/bin;%JAVA_HOME%\lib; %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib; %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext; %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext;C:\Program Files\Mysql\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.1.38-bin.jar\


This is my little Java load driver test:

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;

// WARNING: do not import com.mysql.jdbc.*
// You must have already installed Connection/J from here: www.mysql.com/downloads
// ...    then login and download the correct version. We have downloaded 5.1

public class LoadDriver {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
			System.out.println("Error: Cannot find MySQL JDBC Driver!\n");
			ex.printStackTrace();
			return;
		}

		System.out.println("MySQL JDBC Driver registered\n");
		Connection conn = null;
		try {
			conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://<ip address:port>/databasename" + "username=scott + password=tiger);
		} catch (SQLException ex) {
			System.out.println("Connection to mysql failed, check output console!\n");
			ex.printStackTrace();
			return;
		}

		if (conn != null) {
			System.out.println("You made it, you can take control of your database now\n");

		} else {
			System.out.println("Failed to connect to mysql!\n");
		}
	}
}