

You can add MySQL JDBC connector driver by adding as dependencies in your gradle build file as shown below :Ĭompile 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.+' If you don't have MySQL driver JAR, you can download it from maven central library or directly from MySQL JDBC driver website. Find and add mysql-connector-java-5.1.25-bin.jar into Eclipse's classpath.


Solution : You can fix this error by deploying mysql-connector-java-5.1.25-bin.jar into your application's classpath. When Class.forName() method will execute at run-time, it will try to find the driver class provided as String argument and throw this error if its not able to find it on classpath. its not using any class or method from this JAR directly. Remember, there won't be any error during compile time because your program has no direct dependency to this JAR i.e.
