sethbeckerman5 Staff asked 8 years ago
Recently I was working with JDBC, and all code which uses JDBC were working perfectly.
After some time I started using JDBC again to refresh all concepts. The problem is, when I wrote my new program at that time, it gave me ClassNotFoundException. Everything in my code was perfect. I also added the external JAR file of the MySQL connector. The exception was ClassNotFoundException com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.
I tried different IDEs to run that code, but it gave me the same error. But then I tried to import this MySQL connector from the Maven repository and all the exceptions were cleared and executed perfectly.
Previously I was using this MySQL connector. Also both connectors versions were the same which was 8.0.11. I have really less amount of knowledge of Maven.
Why did the MySQL connector JAR file from Maven work perfectly and the other didn't?
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