Hey stupid question but I'm having a hard time connecting my java program to a mysql database. Throwing an exception when I hit this line.
Class.forName(driverName).newInstance();
The driver name is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. I've searched around a bit on google and found something about a mysql-connector.jar file that I'm apparently supposed to have but I really haven't looked into it yet. Thanks.
Entire code:
Connection connection = null;
try
{
String driverName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"; // MySQL MM JDBC driver
Class.forName(driverName).newInstance();
String serverName = "*********";
String database = "canteen_web3";
String url = "jdbc:mysql://" + serverName + "/" + database;
final String username = "*****";
final String password = "******";
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);
System.out.println("Connected!");
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
throw new ICException(ex.getMessage());
}
