ANT WEBLOGIC 8 JSF

Question

Hi Friends,
If I am posting this question in a wrong Forum please excuse me, but I need an answer.
Problem Details :
1. I am working on a project with Weblogic, ANT and JSF.
2. I am new to JSF, so learning and coding.
3. I could able to run Demo programs and my changes (I mean converting demo to my requirements) worked fine initially.
4. Problem started when I try to add a DB access code.
Let me tell the problem.
1. Everything working fine, I was able to build thorugh ant and I can see my changes until.
I did add this code
try {
System.out.println("Loading the Driver TEST II");
System.out.println("II");
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
System.out.println("Making Connection");
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:oci8:@KAY", "system", "yashhegde");
System.out.println("Creating the Statement");
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
System.out.println("Printing the Statement");
rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM S_USERS");
System.out.println("Here U go theh Result : "+rs);
while (rs.next()) {
System.out.println(" USERNAME : "+rs.getString("USERNAME"));
System.out.println("PASSWORD :"+rs.getString("PASSWORD"));
System.out.println("After completing DB access");
rs.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("ERROR : "+e.getMessage());
in my invoke() method Model class called "RegisterAction extends Action" which is called from RegisterBean getRegisterAction method, infact invoked from submit button - JSF
PROBLEM #1 : when I make changes to this class and run ant to compile and create .ear and copy to destination gives me "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" not found - I understand this problem, but if I run the ant again it says BUILD SUCCESSFUL and I can see build copied to destination and I can see the new build time but I cannot see any new changes I have added to the class :-(
** IMP : If I add the same code to JSP directly without using JSF and run ant - ant goes fine and my code executes properly.
So you know I am totally confused please, please, please help me to fix this problem.
Any help in this will be greatly appreciated.
If you guys have any sample code or link to access DB please mail me to "[email protected]".
Thanks in Advance.
~Deepa

Answer 1

Hi,
I double checked all parameters/env variables properly several time, everything looks OK.
If I use the driver and connect to Oracle outside the JSF works fine and ANT also doesn' throw any error, ant has this problem when I use JSF to write JSP.
So I doubt about JSF (I mean, I did some mistakes using JSF)
Today I tried using weblogic connection pool, things worked fine outside JSF, but not using JSF again.
Connection pool code below.
Driver myDriver = (Driver) Class.forName("weblogic.jdbc.pool.Driver").newInstance();
Connection conn = myDriver.connect("jdbc:weblogic:pool:MyJDBC Connection Pool", null);
Really confused now :-(
Any help on proper installation and usage of JSF (In breif) is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for u r time.
~Deepa