Help-how can i connect to the XE through my java application?

Question

Hi, i am trying to connect to the XE through my java application. I have downloaded the jdbc driver tho. but the error occured: cant find the symbol (class oracledatasource not found) . could anyone here tell me what else should i try to fix it? where should i put the jdbc packages ? anyone's prompt reply would be much appreciated! thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Hi ,thank you very much for your guide.
i am actually trying to connect to the XE server through my JSP files.
i download the Oracle jdbc driver packages and put them in the same folder with JSP files. but i did not set the class path tho.
do i have to set the enviroment variables for the classpath of Oracledatasource class? thanks a lot.
another problem i got is installing the JDeveloper, it seemed my computer just got stuck there when installing JDeveloper. my laptop is with 256MB memory tho.
the code i used to connect to the XE server in my jsp file is as below:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html"%>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import java.sql.Connection%>;
<%@page import java.sql.SQLException%>;
<%@page import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource%>;
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<% String jdbcUrl = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost";
Connection conn;
OracleDataSource ds;
ds = new OracleDataSource();
ds.setURL(jdbcUrl);
conn = ds.getConnection(jdbcUrl);
%>
dose it have some problems there?
thanks a lot.
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