Hibernate Exception – Unable to load class com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

If you are using MySQL database for your hibernate application, then you have to add the MYSQL driver library in your classpath for accessing the database. If you fail to do that, you will end up in the following exception. You can manually download that jar file or add the maven entry as below.

<dependency>
	<groupId>mysql</groupId>
	<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
	<version>5.1.28</version>
</dependency>

Exception Trace

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.boot.registry.classloading.spi.ClassLoadingException: Unable to load class [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver]
	at org.hibernate.boot.registry.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.classForName(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:245)
	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.loadDriverIfPossible(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:200)
	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.buildCreator(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:156)
	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.configure(DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl.java:95)
	at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:89)
	at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:206)
	at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:178)
	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.buildJdbcConnectionAccess(JdbcServicesImpl.java:260)
	at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcServicesImpl.configure(JdbcServicesImpl.java:94)
	at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.configureService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:89)
	at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:206)
	at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:178)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildTypeRegistrations(Configuration.java:1885)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1843)
	at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1928)
	at javabeat.net.hibernate.HibernateUtil.main(HibernateUtil.java:10)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Could not load requested class : com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
	at org.hibernate.boot.registry.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl$AggregatedClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:230)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:266)
	at org.hibernate.boot.registry.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.classForName(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:242)