MySQL Failed to initialize JDBC driver 'com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver'

[wblangdon]

Following issue #612 we have Java 23 ok (thanks again).

I do not know if this is a Benchbase, MySQL, JDBC or CLASSPATH problem but...

When I try (with Java 23.0.2)
java -jar benchbase.jar -b tpcc -c config/mysql/sample_tpcc_config.xml --create=true --load=true --execute=true
it immediately fails with exit status 1
and output:

[INFO ] 2025-03-20 11:26:40,004 [main] com.oltpbenchmark.DBWorkload main - ======================================================================

Benchmark: TPCC {com.oltpbenchmark.benchmarks.tpcc.TPCCBenchmark}
Configuration: config/mysql/sample_tpcc_config.xml
Type: MYSQL
Driver: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/benchbase?rewriteBatchedStatements=true&allowPublicKeyRetrieval=True&sslMode=DISABLED
Isolation: TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE
Batch Size: 128
DDL Path: null
Loader Threads: 8
Session Setup File: null
Scale Factor: 1.0
Terminals: 1
New Connection Per Txn: false
Reconnect on Connection Failure: true

[INFO ] 2025-03-20 11:26:40,005 [main] com.oltpbenchmark.DBWorkload main - ======================================================================
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize JDBC driver 'com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver'
at com.oltpbenchmark.WorkloadConfiguration.init(WorkloadConfiguration.java:315)
at com.oltpbenchmark.DBWorkload.main(DBWorkload.java:467)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:528)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:462)
at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:453)
at com.oltpbenchmark.WorkloadConfiguration.init(WorkloadConfiguration.java:313)
... 1 more

any help or guidance would be most welcome
Bill