Scenario : What causes the "No suitable driver" error ?

"No suitable driver" is an error that usually occurs during a call to the DriverManager.getConnection method.

Possible causes

• Fail to load the appropriate JDBC drivers before calling the getConnection method
• Specifying an invalid JDBC URL which is not recognized by your JDBC driver.
• When using the JDBC-ODBC Bridge, one or more shared libraries needed by the Bridge cannot be loaded.

Solution

Check your configuration for these mistakes.