i am working on fedora 14 and get an error while making an database connection with java to mysql . The Exception is com.mysql.jdba.Driver class not found ,whole i have put the "mysql-connector-java-5.1.15-bin.jar" in /home/Rohit/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/lib folder of Apache tomcat Server.

this is code :-



import java.sql.*;



public class Login extends Connect

{

HashMap login_data;

public Login()

{

Connect.mysql_connect();

}





public HashMap login(HashMap login_data)

{



String luser=null,lpassword=null;

String user=null,password=null;

luser=(String) login_data.get("lid");

lpassword=(String) login_data.get("lpass");

try {





rs=statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM login where user='"+luser+"'") ;



while(rs.next())

{



user=rs.getString("user");

password=rs.getString("pass");

}



}catch(Exception jk) { System.out.println("error : " + jk);}



if(user.equals(luser) && password.equals(lpassword))

return login_data;







}


this is code of project where error occur.

package com;
import java.sql.*;

public class Connect {
public static Statement statement=null;
public static Connection connection=null;
public static ResultSet rs=null;
public static PreparedStatement psmt=null;
public static void mysql_connect()
{
try
{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance ();
connection=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql ://localhost/HCL?" +"user=root&pass=toor");
statement=connection.createStatement();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.print("Error in Connect file" +e.toString());
}
}



} this is code of connection class .


plz help to make connection i am in trouble from 1 week.

thanks in advance........