com.mysql.jdbc.Driver not resolved in ApiFest - jdbc

Question

Here is what my pom.xml looks like :
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.6</version>
</dependency>
Code where i am trying to get jdbc connection :
public static Connection getConnection() {
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/";
String dbName = "dbname” ";
String userName = "userName";
String password = "password";
Connection connection = null;
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url + dbName, userName, password);
if (connection != null) {
System.out.println("You made it, take control your database now!");
} else {
System.out.println("Failed to make connection!");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Inside exception");
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Returning connection >>> " + connection);
return connection;
}
I am running ApiFest server using command :
java -Dproperties.file=apifest-oauth.properties -Dlog4j.configuration=file:log4j.xml -jar target/apifest-oauth20-0.2.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader.loadClass(URLClassLoader.java:789)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:191)
Also tried downloading com.mysql.jdbc_5.1.5.jar and added it to class path but no help.