Re: Getting started

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, konrad_at_voxway.com wrote:
> There's a lot of things to be downloaded from Oracles home
> page. It's very confusing... (I use JDK 1.3, WinXP)
>
> What do i HAVE to get to make this (or similar) code work:
> DriverManager.registerDriver (new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver ());

Licensing issues aside, you should be able to:

1. Go to http://technet.oracle.com/index.html
2. Downloads --> Utilities and Drivers --> Oracle JDBC Drivers
3. Download classes12.zip into some specific directory, which if you installed Oracle client, would be: $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/

Point your classpath at that and then the line you reference will compile.

> I understand that the package "oracle" has to be installed but
> where do i get it. Also - do i need anything besides that?

Not to get a ResultSet back from Oracle.

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