CLASSPATH not working !

Question

I'm on Windows XP.
I have three jar files - the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 jar files - msbase.jar, msutil.jar and mssqlserver.jar.
I have copied them everywhere I can think of and set the CLASSPATH and even tried using the -classpath switch - I still get the error class not found.
I've copied them into the current directory, into the lib directory the lib\ex directory.
What am I doing wrong ?

Answer 1

I'm using the appletviewer as it's just a test applet to talk to SQL Server 2000.
Does the classpath switch work with appletviewer ?
Code is as follows
* Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
* Use of this software is authorized pursuant to the terms of the license found at
* http://developer.java.sun.com/berkeley_license.html.
* This is a demonstration JDBC applet.
* It displays some simple standard output from the Coffee database.
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.sql.*;
public class OutputApplet extends Applet implements Runnable {
private Thread worker;
private Vector queryResults;
private String message = "Initializing";
public synchronized void start() {
     // Every time "start" is called we create a worker thread to
     // re-evaluate the database query.
     if (worker == null) {     
     message = "Connecting to database";
worker = new Thread(this);
     worker.start();
* The "run" method is called from the worker thread. Notice that
* because this method is doing potentially slow databases accesses
* we avoid making it a synchronized method.
public void run() {
String url="jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://servA:1433;DatabaseName=test";
     String query = "SELECT * FROM DBO.SHOW";
     try {
     Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");
     } catch(Exception ex) {
setError("Stage #1: Can't find Database driver class: " + ex);
     return;
     try {
     Vector results = new Vector();
     Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,"view", "view");
     Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
     ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
     while (rs.next()) {
          int rn = rs.getRow();
          String s = rs.getString(2);
          String f = rs.getString(4);
          String text = "Row: " + rn + " " + s + " - " + f + " row:" + rs.wasNull();
          results.addElement(text);
     stmt.close();
     con.close();
     setResults(results);
     } catch(SQLException ex) {
     setError("Stage2 SQLException: " + ex);
* The "paint" method is called by AWT when it wants us to
* display our current state on the screen.
public synchronized void paint(Graphics g) {
     // If there are no results available, display the current message.
     if (queryResults == null) {
     g.drawString(message, 5, 50);
     return;
     // Display the results.
     g.drawString("Horses in TNH: ", 5, 10);
     int y = 30;
     java.util.Enumeration enum = queryResults.elements();
     while (enum.hasMoreElements() && (y<200)) {
     String text = (String)enum.nextElement();
     g.drawString(text, 5, y);
     y = y + 15;
* This private method is used to record an error message for
* later display.
private synchronized void setError(String mess) {
     queryResults = null;     
     message = mess;     
     worker = null;
     // And ask AWT to repaint this applet.
     repaint();
* This private method is used to record the results of a query, for
* later display.
private synchronized void setResults(Vector results) {
     queryResults = results;
     worker = null;
     // And ask AWT to repaint this applet.
     repaint();