Hi! I m quite new to JDBC and the java world in general and after having gone through all the documentation and tutorials, I still can t understand why a tiny program such as the one below still fails import java.sql.*; public class Essai { public static void main(String[] Args) { try { Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance(); Connection con = DriveManager.getConnection( "jdbc:mysql://localhost/COFFEEBREAK","root" ,"passwd" ); } catch (Exception E) { System.err.println("marche pas"); E.printStackTrace(); } } } jikes geives the following output: DriveManager is either a misplaced package package name or a non existent entity.

Any advice or suggestion welcome!! Vincent, Stuttgart.