Driver setup failure

Question

I am trying to write a program that needs to connect to an Oracle database on a different machine but I cannot even get my test app to compile.
I know that I need a jdbc driver. I downloaded ojdbc6.jar from the Oracle site. I know that it needs to be in my path. I have copied the file to a number of directories that I know are in my path and even created a directory for it and added that directory to the path. Unfortunatley when I compile I get the followiing error:
OracleTest.java:6: package oracle.jdbc.dirver does not exit
new oracle. jdbc.driver.OracleDriver()
Here is the portion of the test code that the compiler is complaining about. It is taken from the numorous examples on the web.
import java.sql.*;
class OracleTest {
public static void main(String args[]) throws SQLException {
DriverManager.registerDriver(
new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver()
I must be missing something that is so common knowledge that a newbie like me doesn't know about and everyone else takes for granted that everyone knows it.
I even tried unpacking the jar file without any difference in the error message.
Thanks for all your help!!!!!
Edited by: 921195 on Mar 15, 2012 10:28 AM

Answer 1

I created a new folder at:
c:\Jfiles\Projects
I put the ojdbc6.jar file into that folder.
c:\JFiles\Projects>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is D695-A189
Directory of c:\JFiles\Projects
03/16/2012 10:54 AM <DIR> .
03/16/2012 10:54 AM <DIR> ..
03/13/2012 12:26 PM 2,714,189 ojdbc6.jar
1 File(s) 2,714,189 bytes
2 Dir(s) 596,019,490,816 bytes free
My classpath is:
c:\JFiles>echo %classpath%
C:\Program Files (x86)\eInstruction\CPS PowerPoint Add-in\;c:\Jfiles\Projects
My current test code is:
import java.sql.*;
import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;
class OracleTest2 {
public static void main(String args[]) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException
          //Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
     Connection conn =
          DriverManager.getConnection("URL", "username", "password");
     conn.setAutoCommit(false);
     Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
     ResultSet rset =
          stmt.executeQuery("select BANNER from SYS.V_$VERSION");
     while (rset.next()) {
          System.out.println (rset.getString(1));
     stmt.close();
     System.out.println ("Ok.");
Here is the error I now receive when trying to compile.
OracleTest2.java:2: package oracle.jdbc.driver does not exist
import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;
^
1 error
Thanks again for all of your patience and help!!!!