It’s a fundamental question but it’s a really annoying issue when starting with mule Error: “Cannot load class ‘com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'”. Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Error trying to load driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver : Cannot load class ‘com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’: [ com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, Cannot load class ‘com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’: [ Class ‘com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’ blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla That is very likely because I don’t have the mysql connector jar as a pom dependency. But