I'm getting an error when I try to log on at localhost:8080 with my code. Can someone please help me. I'm new to web application development. I've connected to a database (mysql) which contains employee_id and password columns which the JAVA application will check with to validate the login. But it is returning an error. I have attached all my files below as well as the error, thanks! I'm getting the error
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
even though I've installed the connector.
Login.java (servlet)
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class Login extends HttpServlet {
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String employee_id = request.getParameter("employee_id");
String password = request.getParameter("password");
if(Validate.checkUser(employee_id, password)) {
RequestDispatcher rs = request.getRequestDispatcher("Welcome");
rs.forward(request, response);
}
else
{
out.println("Employee ID or Password is incorrect. Please try again.");
RequestDispatcher rs = request.getRequestDispatcher("index.html");
rs.include(request, response);
}
}
}
Welcome.java (servlet)
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class Welcome extends HttpServlet {
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("Welcome user");
}
}
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Login Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="login" method="post">
<h3>
Employee Login
</h3>
<b>Employee ID:</b> <br>
<input type="text"name="employee_id" size="20"><br><br>
<b>Password:</b><br>
<input type="password" name="password" size="20"><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Login"><br><br>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Validate.java (class)
import java.sql.*;
public class Validate
{
public static boolean checkUser(String employee_id, String password)
{
boolean st = false;
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/payroll", "root", "");
PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("select * from employee_login where employee_id =? and password = ?");
ps.setString(1, employee_id);
ps.setString(2, password);
ResultSet rs =ps.executeQuery();
st = rs.next();
}catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
return st;
}
}
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" >
<servlet>
<servlet-name>login</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>Login</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Welcome</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>Welcome</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>login</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/login</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Welcome</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Welcome</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
AND I"M GETTING THIS ERROR WHEN I TRY TO LOG IN:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1854)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1703)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
at Validate.checkUser(Validate.java:8)
at Login.doPost(Login.java:15)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:650)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:956)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:423)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1079)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:625)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
