There is a VERY similar question to mine but in my case I don\'t have any duplicate jars in my build path, so the solution does not work for me. I\'ve searched google for a
Just follow these steps:
1) Install eclipse
2) Import Apache to eclipse
3) Install mysql
4) Download mysqlconnector/J
5) Unzip the zipped file navigate through it until you get the bin file in it. Then place all files that are present in the folder containing bin to C:\Program Files\mysql\mysql server5.1/
then give the same path as the address while defining the driver in eclipse.
That's all very easy guys.