Updating ojdbc drivers Can't load IA 32-bit .so on a IA 32-bit platform

Question

I ran into some problems updating the Oracle OCI client and drivers; I downloaded the basic instant client package version 11.1.0.7.0 from the oracle website, then updated my maven pom file to fetch the ojdbc5 jar file (11.1). Then when I packaged and deployed it on my tomcat server I ran into this error when requesting from the server:
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/tongz/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/libocijdbc11.so: Can't load IA 32-bit .so on a IA 32-bit platform
This error seems to stem from version compatibility issues / permissions; however even after I changed permissions to r/w on all oracle related lib files and checked that my java version is compatible (1.5.0_11), I still get the same error and don't know what could be the cause. Please advise. Thanks.
Edited by: user9272841 on Mar 10, 2010 11:49 AM
Edited by: user9272841 on Mar 10, 2010 11:58 AM

Answer 1

Thanks for the quick reply Chris.
You're right. When I run file libttclient.so on the different client files, I see the version 5 one is 64-bit but the version 6 one is 32-bit.
Version 5 fie: libttclient.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
Version 6 file: libttclient.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
The SysAdmin says they don't have 64-bit versions. Oh dear! And the developers aren't keen on changing their code to use a 32-bit JVM.
Ah well, thanks for the response.
Best wishes!