JDBC Driver in OSGI (Eclipse IDE)

Hi, I am having some problems with getting my OSGI programs to recognzie/utilize the mysql jdbc driver.

I have a bundle that is speficcally for entering data into a mysql database. I have copied over all the same methods as in a test program (non-OSGI). I am not able to create a connection suing DriverManager.getConnection().

I have added the driver to the class path andhave tried all the solutions on this site such as using Class.forName(). Possibly I am inputting the wrong string arg into forName().

public void createConn(String URL, String DBName, String username, String password){

 try {
   Class.forName("mysql-connector-java-5.1.14-bin.jar");
  } catch (ClassNotFoundException e1) {
   e1.printStackTrace();
  }
  try {
   conn = DriverManager.getConnection(URL + DBName,username,password);
   System.out.println("Connection Created");
   stmt = conn.createStatement();
   System.out.println("Statement Created");
   //data = new ApplianceData();

   //flag = true;
   //this.writeThread = new Thread();
   //writeThread.start();

  } catch (SQLException e) {
   System.err.println(e.getMessage());
  }
}

• Can someone tell me the argument they used in Class.forName();

• Does anybody have a solution to this problem or encountered this?