No suitable driver found to connect to MySql openshift

Question

I'm trying to connect to MySql from tomcat(jboss) but i'm getting the error

 java.sql.SQLException : No suitable driver found

I have added the mysql connector jar file in my project lib ,it works fine in my local machine but not working in openshift, for openshift i have changed the username, password and url given by openshift to connect to MySql in my java program but it doesn't work do i have to place the jar file anywhere else...can any one help me with this?

Answer 1

Did you 'git add .' and then 'git commit' to make sure JAR file is on the server? Is there a reason you can't add the mysql connector jar to the dependencies in the pom.xml?