Hello, A new question has been asked in "MariaDB Community" by Intrinsic. Please answer it at http://mariadb.com/kb/en/jdbc-driver-configuration-error/ as the person asking the question may not be subscribed to the mailing list. -------------------------------- I am attempting to connect to MariaDB from a command line Java program. I am getting the "no suitable driver found" error. I am using the mariaDB Type 4 JDBC driver, the JDK 1.8, Windows 10. I have added the maria driver to the lib directory of the JRE, and added this directory to the PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables. I can connect to the mariaDB database using DBVisualizer, when I manually point the configuration of DBVisualizer to the maria driver, so I know that the driver works fine. Here is the Java code: Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/DB?user=root&password=myPassword"); and the error C:\Users\Documents\VTK\Dev>java -cp . VTK3 java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/DB?user=root&password=myPassword at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source) at VTK3.main(VTK3.java:38) Thanks -------------------------------- To view or answer this question please visit: http://mariadb.com/kb/en/jdbc-driver-configuration-error/