Cannot connect to remote database using Java and Mariadb

Question

I am 97% sure that I have set my java web application correctly but I still get an error which points to missing the Mariadb connector or something that is close to that. I have tried to fix it but to no avail... I have

• added the depencency for mariadb in pom.xml file (shown in first image)
• checked that the .jar file is there. (shown in first image)
• tried to clean and rebuild...

Upon checking the GlashFish Server tab on run, I can read this :

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException : com.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1580)
at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1430)
... and at least 20 more locations.

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Here I am trying to print the result in console to see if my application managed to connect to the remote database server, but I get nothing since it seems to crash before at the line Class.forName("com.mariadb.jdbc.Driver"); which I have found to be the right syntax for mariadb jdbc on their website . To save you time, they are saying that this is the legacy way of doing this, but that it still works. I did try to remove all the parameters from the url connection to only the user and password in getConnection(); line, but it still fails. Am I missing something?

To avoid confusion in the screenshot, myddns.link is including :3306 so that is not the error.

Answer 1

Should be

Class.forName("org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver");

instead of

Class.forName("com.mariadb.jdbc.Driver");

The documentation you linked even states it explicitly:

Please note that the driver class provided by MariaDB Connector/J is not com.mysql.jdbc.Driver but org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver!