Java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDri

Question

I am sorry in advance, because I know this topic has been posted many times, but I think after reading all the solutions and trying everything I may have messed myself up worse.
I am trying to run this simple script to connect to my SQL database
import java.sql.*;
  * Microsoft SQL Server JDBC test program
public class Test {
  public Test() throws Exception {
    // Get connection
    DriverManager.registerDriver(new
    com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver());
    Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
    "jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<Host>:1433","<UID>","<PWD>");
    if (connection != null) {
     System.out.println();
      System.out.println("Successfully connected");
      System.out.println();
      // Meta data
      DatabaseMetaData meta = connection.getMetaData();
      System.out.println("\nDriver Information");
      System.out.println("Driver Name: "
       + meta.getDriverName());
      System.out.println("Driver Version: "
       + meta.getDriverVersion());
      System.out.println("\nDatabase Information ");
      System.out.println("Database Name: "
       + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
      System.out.println("Database Version: "+
      meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());
} // Test
public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception {
  Test test = new Test();
}I have set "PATH" in environmental variables (running windows)to be
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_04\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msbase.jar;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\mssqlserver.jar;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msutil.jarSo when i Compile i get the error..
C:\SQLcode>javac Test.java
Test.java:9: package com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver does not exist
    com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver());Additionally, when i run
java com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
I get
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/microsoft/jdbc/sq
lserver/SQLServerDriver
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLSer
verDriverFinally, I have even ran javac -classpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver f
or JDBC\lib\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msba
se.jar;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\mssqlserve
r.jar;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msutil.jar"
Test.java Which will compile correctly! However when I run the same command just with the java command as opposed to the javac command, I get
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Test/java
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Test.java
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) While there is a Class file in the directory.. Sorry for such a long post but I have been trying to fix this for two days now.. thank you

Answer 1

Ok well i tried a number of combinations..
My code lets say is in a folder C:\SQLCode which was successfully compiled using the command above..
I tried doing what you suggested and got
C:\SQLcode>java -cp .;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC
\lib\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msbase.jar;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\mssqlserver.jar;C
:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msutil.jar Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Files\Microsoft
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Files\Microsoft
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)I also tried without the direct links to the .jar files (just put the DIR) and got the same result.Any other suggestions?