Re: JDBC setup on Windows Xp!! Please help

Hi! Ashok, everyone,

Sorry for posting it twice. I figured out the answer myself eventually:)

Thanks for your help.

cheers

samir

"Ashok Rautela" <arautela_at_openlinksw.co.uk> wrote in message news:f5f56ae7.0201220353.43b4b75f_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi Samir,
>
> You have posed this question twice, I think you need to refer to the
> answer given by Rajesh Jayaprakash for your posting in the following
> newsgroup:
>
> Subject: JDBC setup on windows xp! Please help
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools
>
> Regards,
>
> Ashok Rautela
> Professional Services Consultant
> OpenLink Software
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>
>
> "Samir N. Thacker" <samirthacker_at_rogers.com> wrote in message
news:<OVu28.2414$%G.1746_at_news2.bloor.is>...
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am new to JDBC and so having problems setting up JDBC correctly on my
> > machine. I have Windows XP Pro OS, Java SDK version 1.3.1_01 and Oracle
> > 8.1.7 for Windows NT and I want to write Java applications to connect to
> > oracle databases.
> >
> > I don't know how to set up JDBC for Oracle on Windows XP machine. I
tried
> > different approaches but i always ended up with an error message as
below...
> >
> > "C:\Employee.java:17: cannot resolve symbol
> > symbol : class OracleDriver
> > location: package driver
> > DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
> >
> > ^
> > 1 error"
> >
> > From whatever I have read i believe that it's got something to do with
> > classes12.zip file which is in my C:\orant\ora8i\jdbc\lib folder on my
hard
> > drive.
> >
> > Can someone please provide me with a step-by-step instruction on how to
set
> > up JDBC correctly and show me what exactly I am supposed to do in
Windows XP
> > Pro to set up the environment variable values and whatever else is
required
> > to use the Thin drivers from Oracle. I have visited Oracle's site and
Sun's
> > website to find answers but they mention nothing about setting up JDBC o
n a
> > Windows XP machine!!
> >
> > thanks a lot in advance...
> >
> > samir
Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 16:09:42 CST