Help Please .... Unable to load Driver Class

Question

Hi There:
When I try to connect to the Oracle 8i via this applet , I get the following run time error.
Any help will be appreciated.
I am using j2sdkee1.3.1, jdk1.3.1_02 and Oracle8.
I also need your suggestion please. I have inserted some BLOB data in the Oracle table. I will need to display the BLOB data to the end users. I plan to convert this BLOB data into string format so that my applet can display the same. Further the string will have to be edited by the end users. I will then convert this modified string back to byte array so that I can insert the same as BLOB.
Please let me know applet or the servlet? Which is better option.
Users are reluctant to use any kind of WebServer because it will introduce the additional layer of complexity.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
C:\>AppletViewer JdbcApplet.html
Unable to load Driver Class
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\oracle\jdbc\
driver\OracleDriver.class (The system cannot find the path specified)
The following code snippet fails because it is unable to find the suitable driver.
if (conn == null)
     //make a connection to the db
     try {     
          // conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:thin:@"+"localhost:1521:sys", "system", "manager");
          // conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:thin:system/manager@(description=(address_list= (address=(pro tocol=tcp)(host=localhost)(port=1521)))(source_route=yes)(connect_data=(sid=sys)))" );
          Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
          String conurl="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:sys";
          Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection(conurl,"system","manager");
     } catch ( Exception e ) {
          System.out.println ("Unable to load Driver Class");
          e.printStackTrace (System.out);
          // add send email notification about this fact
          return false;
} // End of if Statement from conn...

Answer 1

Hi,
maybe I'm too late but try the following :
It seems that Your IDE doesn't check the path to Your classesxxx.zip file.
Or Your classesxxx.zip file is corrupt.
We had this error after downloading the classes12.zip for Oracle versions
higher 8.1.6.
The original size of this file is 1.888kB.
Remember Windows FTP is downloading in ascii mode per default.
Or Your classpath isn't correct
( the Exception souns like this )
Regards