How to add a JDBC driver in the pom file

Cannot load driver class:com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
How to add a JDBC driver in the pom file

To-start with, the jar that I need to connect to MySQL 5.5 should have been Mysql-connector-java-5.1.15-bin.jar but Sql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar. Secondly, this jar isn't available in Maven repository so I needed to manually add it to M Y local maven repository and then added it as a dependency to my pom.xml.

Adding Mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar to the local maven repository by MVN install:install-file-dfile=c:\libraries\ Mysql-connector-java-5.1.15-bin\mysql-connector-java-5.1.15-bin.jar-dgroupid=mysql-dartifactid= Mysql-connector-java-dversion=5.1.15-bin-dpackaging=jar and then adding the following dependency to Pom.xml of the Proje Ct.

    <!--MYSQL 5.5 Connector-->   
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        < Artifactid>mysql-connector-java</artifactid>
        <version>5.1.15-bin</version>
    

This is not done yet and you need to add <scope> tags before you can use

        <!--MYSQL 5.5 Connector-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            < artifactid>mysql-connector-java</artifactid>
            <version>5.1.15-bin</version>
            < Scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>