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I have installed Eclipse Luna recently to do programming on JSP. Currently i'm trying to connect it with JDBC. I have downloaded mysql J connector and added mysql-connector-java-5.1.31-bin.jar to the build path. I've trying running in on my browser and i get the following error:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

I'm pretty sure that my settings are correct in terms of setting the path. I also have set up the CLASSPATH in environment variables just in case that is the main problem, but still i'm facing the same problem.

Can anyone help me?

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The CLASSPATH environment variable is almost never used, you shouldn't try to use it. –  Mark Rotteveel Aug 1 at 7:30
    
add the jar to the classpath of your application –  M.Sharma Aug 1 at 8:12

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Yes your settings are wright for building the application, running it needs other settings. You need to place the jar file either in CATALINA_HOME/lib or in <your-app>/WEB-INF/lib so that the driver is found at run time. The latter is preferable.

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