class not found exception.

[Lavanya Balaraman]

hi
i trying to give database connection from java to mysql. I set the class path in environment variables. when i am trying to run the application class not found: com.mysq.jdbc.Driver error is coming

[Ulf Dittmer]

How are you adding the jar file containing the MySQL driver to the classpath? It's apparently not being found.

[Bauke Scholtz]

And how are you running the application? That also matters.