The infamous java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found

Question

I\'m trying to add a database-enabled JSP to an existing Tomcat 5.5 application (GeoServer 2.0.0, if that helps).

The app itself talks to Postgres just fine, so I kn

Answer 1

I found the followig tip helpful, to eliminate this issue in Tomcat -

be sure to load the driver first doing a Class.forName(" org.postgresql.Driver"); in your code.

This is from the post - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e13c14ec050510103846db6b0e@mail.gmail.com

The jdbc code worked fine as a standalone program but, in TOMCAT it gave the error -'No suitable driver found'