Primeiro você precisa carregar o driver JDBC antes da conexão
// Notice, do not import com.mysql.jdbc.*
// or you will have problems!
//Load Driver
try {
// The newInstance() call is a work around for some
// broken Java implementations
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
} catch (Exception ex) {
// handle the error
}
con=DriverManager.getConnection(connectieString);
System.out.println ("Database connection established");
certifique-se de ter mysql-connector-java-5.x.x-bin.jar no classpath ao executar seu aplicativo.