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 had this exact issue when developing a Spring Boot application in STS, but ultimately deploying the packaged war to WebSphere(v.9). Based on previous answers my situation was unique. ojdbc8.jar was in my WEB-INF/lib folder with Parent Last class loading set, but always it says it failed to find the suitable driver.

My ultimate issue was that I was using the incorrect DataSource class because I was just following along with online tutorials/examples. Found the hint thanks to David Dai comment on his own question here: Spring JDBC Could not load JDBC driver class [oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver]

Also later found spring guru example with Oracle specific driver: https://springframework.guru/configuring-spring-boot-for-oracle/

Example that throws error using org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource based on generic examples.

@Config
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class appDataConfig {
 \* Other Bean Defs *\
    @Bean
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        // configure and return the necessary JDBC DataSource
        DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource("jdbc:oracle:thin:@//HOST:PORT/SID", "user", "password");
        dataSource.setSchema("MY_SCHEMA");
        return dataSource;
    }
}

And the corrected exapmle using a oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource:

@Config
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class appDataConfig {
/* Other Bean Defs */
@Bean
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        // configure and return the necessary JDBC DataSource
        OracleDataSource datasource = null;
        try {
            datasource = new OracleDataSource();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        datasource.setURL("jdbc:oracle:thin:@//HOST:PORT/SID");
        datasource.setUser("user");
        datasource.setPassword("password");

        return datasource;
    }
}

Answer 2

A very silly mistake which could be possible resulting is adding of space at the start of the JDBC URL connection.

What I mean is:-

suppose u have bymistake given the jdbc url like

String jdbcUrl=" jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/web_customer_tracker?useSSL=false&serverTimeZone=UTC";

(Notice there is a space in the staring of the url, this will make the error)

the correct way should be:

String jdbcUrl="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/web_customer_tracker?useSSL=false&serverTimeZone=UTC";

(Notice no space in the staring, you may give space at the end of the url but it is safe not to)

Answer 3

I was having the same issue with mysql datasource using spring data that would work outside but gave me this error when deployed on tomcat.

The error went away when I added the driver jar mysql-connector-java-8.0.16.jar to the jres lib/ext folder

However I did not want to do this in production for fear of interfering with other applications. Explicity defining the driver class solved this issue for me

    spring.datasource.driver-class-name: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver

Answer 4

I faced the similar issue. My Project in context is Dynamic Web Project(Java 8 + Tomcat 8) and error is for PostgreSQL Driver exception: No suitable driver found

It got resolved by adding Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver") before calling getConnection() method

Here is my Sample Code:

try {
            Connection conn = null;
            Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://" + host + ":" + port + "/?preferQueryMode="
                    + sql_auth,sql_user , sql_password);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Failed to create JDBC db connection " + e.toString() + e.getMessage());
        }

Answer 5

Run java with CLASSPATH environmental variable pointing to driver's JAR file, e.g.

CLASSPATH='.:drivers/mssql-jdbc-6.2.1.jre8.jar' java ConnectURL

Where drivers/mssql-jdbc-6.2.1.jre8.jar is the path to driver file (e.g. JDBC for for SQL Server).

The ConnectURL is the sample app from that driver (samples/connections/ConnectURL.java), compiled via javac ConnectURL.java.

Answer 6

url="jdbc:postgresql//localhost:5432/mmas"

That URL looks wrong, do you need the following?

url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mmas"