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

In my case I was working on a Java project with Maven and encountered this error. In your pom.xml file make sure you have this dependencies

    
      junit
      junit
      4.11
      test
    
    
      mysql
      mysql-connector-java
      8.0.11
    
  

and where you create connection have something like this

public Connection createConnection() {
        try {
            String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/yourDatabaseName";
            String username = "root"; //your my sql username here
            String password = "1234"; //your mysql password here

            Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver");
            return DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
        } catch (SQLException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }