thanx christian,
prob was when i put a jar in the classpath it would not locate the classes. now when i
have extracted the contents of mm driver and kept the extracted contents in the
classpath .. everything works just fine.
Thanx anyway ...
Christian Bockerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi !
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:09:09AM -0700, # Lalit Nagpal # wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> plz can anybody tell me how to connect to a mysql database through
> a servlet. i know how to prepare a connection etc through code but
> what other settings are needed. i am using tomcat 4 as a standalone.
>
> The error i get is "Class not found org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"
>
As the message says, the classloader cannot find the mysql-driver
class. I guess your having something like
Driver DriverRecordSet1 =
(Driver)Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance();
in your code. Now imagine that your classloader wants to load a class.
There are a few places where he can look for it. Either the places
specified in your CLASSPATH-Variable or the predefined places of your
tomcat-installation.
You can read about that in
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html
where it says that you should put your mysql-2.0.4.jar (or how it is
called) in $CATALINA_HOME/lib. This would share your mysql-classes across
all webapplications.
Hope this helps...
-Christian
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