Can't load oracle driver...

Question

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i'm trying to connect to my oracle db from my jbuilder application and get the following error...
jdbc:oracle:thin@devserver05:1521:xxx_xxx
error loading class.forname
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:191)
this is created from my code...
import java.sql.*;
public class ConnectionManager {
private static final String driveName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
private static final String serverName = "dev_server05";
private static final int serverPort = 1521;
private static final String dataBaseSID = "xxx_xxx";
private static final String userID = "xxxxx";
private static final String password = "yyyyy";
private static final String URL = "jdbc:oracle:thin@" + serverName + ":" + serverPort
+ ":" + dataBaseSID;
public ConnectionManager() {
public static Connection createConnection() throws SQLException{
try {
Class.forName(driveName);
catch (ClassNotFoundException e1) {
System.out.println(URL);
System.out.println("error loading class.forname");
e1.printStackTrace();
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, userID, password);
return con;
}

Answer 1

and when i type the following into the command
line...
C:\jtm>java oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
i get the following so i guess my path is ok.....
Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
oracle/jdbc/driver/OracleDriverHi ,
try adding the import statement for the oracle driver, which is
import oracle.jdbc.driver.*;
and don't forget to add your oracle driver in the classpath..
hope this helps..
Ganesh