Help: can't connect using oci8 driver

I am running Oracle8.05 on Solaris2.6. I tried to connect the JDBC oci8 driver from a java application on another Solaris client to the Oracle database.

This is my connection String:
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:oci8:_at_204.999.999.999:9999:orcl", "system", "manager");

I got the following exception:
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06401: NETCMN: invalid driver designator

        at
oracle.jdbc.oci7.OCIDBAccess.check_error(OCIDBAccess.java:1334)

        at oracle.jdbc.oci7.OCIDBAccess.logon(OCIDBAccess.java:181)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:103)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:148)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:91)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:134)
        at meme2oci8.main(meme2oci8.java:24)

I am able to connect to the database using thin driver with the same syntax. Anyone have ideas? Thanx.

Ed

--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.--- Received on Wed May 19 1999 - 00:59:46 CEST