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How to solve ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver?

843859May 6 2010 — edited Nov 20 2014
Hi All

I've just started trying to work with JavaDB and have got stuck pretty early on. I'm getting the error..."java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver".

I'm using Netbeans so I created a new library called it JavaDBEmbedded and added the derby.jar file. However, when I run my code I'm still getting this error. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong??

The code is..
public static void main(String[] args) {
        try
        {
            Class.forName("org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver");
        }
        catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
        {
            System.out.println("Class not found error " + e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
}
The stack trace results..{color:#ff0000}java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at dbdemo.Main.main(Main.java:23){color}

Line 23 in the code is..
Class.forName("org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver");
Thanks in advance
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