title: How to add the JDBC mysql driver to an Eclipse project?
body: <ol>
  <li>I have downloaded the mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar</li>
  <li>I have created a <code>lib</code> folder in my project and put the jar in there.</li>
  <li>properties of project->build path->add JAR and selected the JAR above.</li>
  <li>I still get <code>java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql//localhost:3306/mysql</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I am using mysql 5.5
  The code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package DBTest;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.PrintWriter;
  
  import javax.servlet.ServletException;
  import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
  import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
  import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
  import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
  import java.sql.*;
  import java.util.*;
  
  /**
   * Servlet implementation class TenUsers
   */
  @WebServlet("/TenUsers")
  public class TenUsers extends HttpServlet {
      /**
       * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
       */
      protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
  
          PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
          String mySqlUrl = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql";
  
          Properties userInfo = new Properties();
          userInfo.put("user", "root");
          userInfo.put("password", "SabababArba");
          try{
              Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(mySqlUrl, userInfo);
          }catch(Exception e) {
              out.println(e);
          }      
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I add <code>Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");</code> before <code>Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(mySqlUrl, userInfo);</code> I get <code>java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</code></p>