[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: JDBC Connection Issue

[Denis Roy <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should try the eclipse.platform group, or the eclipse.newcomer group.

This group is for non-technical discussion about the Eclipse Foundation 
organization.

Denis

Steve Adamson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is the right group for this query - had a look through all 
> the topics and it didn't seem to fit anywhere. 
> Anyway, I am receiving a ClassNotFound Exception when I am trying to 
> load the driver for connecting to a MySQL database.  I've trawled 
> various newsgroups and the usual resolution for this ensuring the 
> mysql-connector-java-<version>-bin.jar  is added to the classpath.  I 
> have this on my classpath but still get the error, the jar lives in 
> C:\ProgramFiles\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\ext.
>
> To compound my confusion I have the exact same code working in a 
> different project, the only difference between that and my present 
> project is that the current one is a plug-in.  Could this be causing the 
> error?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve