Put the connector/j jar in the aar archive's lib folder.
In the service class,
ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" , true, classLoader).newInstance();
Upul
On 10/17/07, Vincent Pretre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to produce a web services which interacts with a mysql
> database. I use connector/j to do this, but when I try to call one of my web
> service operations, I get an error "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> Class Not found : org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver".
> The connector/j jar is in $JAVA-HOME/lib/ext.
>
> The code for the database connection works in a simple java class (just
> compiled using javac without any option), but not in my web service.
>
> I'm not a Java guru so I've certainly missed something.
>
> Thanks,
> Vincent
>
> PS: the code that does not work is "Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
> ").newInstance();"
>
