Cannot understand program error

Question

I would be grateful for some guidance. I have written a Java program on a Sun workstation running Solaris 10 and JDK 1.5.0_06. I just wanted to connect to an Oracle database and just make sure that I can get a connection before going any further, yet I get an error that I don't understand. The program compiles okay, but when ran, the error occurs. My program is:
import java.sql.*;
public class Connect
   public static void main( String args[] )
      Connection connection = null;
      try
         String driverName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
         Class.forName( driverName );
         connection = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:oracle:thin:@waikiki:1531:oadev1", "jtownsen", "java_dev1" );
      catch ( ClassNotFoundException e )
         System.out.println("\n*****A Class Not Found exception has occurred*****\n");
         e.printStackTrace();
         System.exit( 1 );
      catch ( SQLException e )
         System.out.println("\n*****An SQL exception has occurred*****\n");
         e.printStackTrace();
         System.exit( 1 );
   } //end main
} //end classThe error returned is the following:
*****A Class Not Found exception has occurred*****
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
   at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
   at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
   at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
   at Connect.main(Connect.java:11)Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Answer 1

Thank you for the replys. However, when running the command:
*$ java -classpath /export/home/jtownsen/java/ojdbc14_g.jar Connect*
I got the following error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Connect
In case anyone is interested, I did figure out a solution. First, I set the environment variable like so: (using Korn shell)
*$ CLASSPATH=/export/home/jtownsen/java/ojdbc14_g.jar:/export/home/jtownsen/java/Connect.class:*
*$ export CLASSPATH*
Then I compiled the program with:
*$ javac Connect.java*
...which created the Connect.class file.
And ran the program with:
*$ java Connect*
...and the program ran with no errors returned.
Now I can begin on the next step. Thanks again to those who have replied.