creating a connection in eclipse - ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Question

I am not doing anything in code - I just created an eclipse connection and can\'t seem to be able to ping it. The connection properties :

Answer 1

That zip is very likely the distribution zip of MySQL Connector/J, inside of that zip is the mysql-connector-java-5.1.27-bin.jar library with the driver. So you need to unzip it first and then add that jar-library instead of the zip.