Failed to load driver class com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
The answer is so embarrassing. I appended the driver line of application.properties with a semicolon ... Obviously, it did't recognize that driver.
In my case the next dependency was missing:
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
In case of using IntelliJ and if you inherit from a <parent>
, you can view your effective pom.xml
by right clicking anywhere inside your pom.xml
, then:
and search for the mysql-connector-java
artifact as mentioned.