CLASSPATH and JDBC Drivers in a Jar File

Hi all, I am creating an application in JDev that uses JDBC to connect to a 10g database. I am deploying my application to a jar and running it on the database server using the jdk installed with the database. $ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin I want to also use the jdbc driver installed in $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib instead of including the driver in my application jar file. How can I cause my jar file to find the jdbc lib?
Can I register it directly with the DriverMannager using the file? My app knows the $ORACLE_HOME.
Or do I just include the jdbc driver in my jar?
John

I was hoping it would be that easy. But I am still having problems. Here is my setup.
export MON_JAVA="$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin/java -classpath /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jdbc/lib/ojdbc14.jar"
$MON_JAVA -jar PMonitor.jar -c trace
and I get this error when connecting to the database.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/jdbc/OracleDriver
I also tried the classes.jar with the same results.

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