Re: Connecting to Oracle with JSP (Newbie)

Paul Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having trouble connecting to Oracle using JSP.
> I'm using Oracle 8.1.6, jdk 1.2.2, Tomcat 4.0.4 running on Win2k,
> all running one machine.
>
> When I try running a very simple Database query using JSP, I get the
> following error message.
>
> Class oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver not found.
>
> The part of the code the error points to is:
>
> DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> P...

Copy your classes12.zip file (c:\orant\jdbc\lib\classes12.zip??) to the Tomcat common lib folder (%CATALINA_HOME\common\lib) and rename it to classes12.jar.

You may have problems running JDK 1.2.2 - should have 1.3 at least I believe.

Tomcat doesn't use the %CLASSPATH%.

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