Re: JDBC setup on Windows Xp!! Please help

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

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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 on a
> Windows XP machine!!
>
> thanks a lot in advance...
>
> samir
Received on Tue Jan 22 2002 - 05:53:00 CST