Hi, I have jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9 installed and have placed packaged classes which are actually beans in WEB-INF/classes of my web application archive. I am trying to access mysql through these beans. The code is : try { Class.forName(Prop.DB_DRIVER); } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) { cnfe.printStackTrace(); throw new Exception("Could not find Driver for DB"); } The class Prop is also packaged under WEB-INF/classes and it loads a properties file in which the driver is specified as com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. The jar which contains this class (com.mysql.jdbc.Driver) file is placed in WEB-INF/lib of my web application archive. Now i get a class not found exception. I am unable to reproduce this error consistently. Sometimes it is able to load the class and my jsp works fine after connecting to DB and sometimes it does not and i get "Could not find Driver for DB" error page in jsp. I do not have a clue as to why this is happening. Also i have the same jar in common/lib and my server.xml, web.xml are modified so that when i login through j_security_check it is able to connect to db and always lets me login to web app. It is after i login and try to access the db that it displays an inconsistent behaviour. Could anyone please help me with this problem? I am unable to find out where i am going wrong. Any help will be most appreciated.
Thanks, Somasundaram.S