I am using Intellij IDEA in order to create my Web Application. I have created a project that has a package called com with four subpackages, one of which is called util. This package (util) contains a class called DatabaseUtility which gets a connection instance. Here is the code snippet:
public class DatabaseUtility {
private static Connection connection = null;
public static Connection getConnection() {
if (connection != null)
return connection;
else {
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/auction", "root", "password");
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return connection;
}
}
}
When I debug this file I get thrown into the catch block with a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver error. I already added the mysql-connector-java-5.1.35-bin.jar to the External Libraries folder.
This exact code will work when this class is in the default package, but once I add it to a package, this error occurs. What am I missing?
