Unable to connect mysql to spring boot project

Question

i am following this https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-mysql/ guide to connect mysql db to spring boot project

but getting following error when running the a

Answer 1

Maybe you missing MySQL connector dependency so add it into dependencies tag on pom.xml file and run the project again. It may fix your problem.

    `
        mysql
        mysql-connector-java
        runtime
     `