Jdbc and SQLServer

Question

I am trying to connect to a SQLServer database from my servlet using jdbc connectivity. I am able to connect to the db if I create a datasource. but if I try to make a connection by giving the connection string (DriverManager.getConnection(..)), I am getting an SQLException "No driver found" at Class.forName(com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver). I tried registering the driver using DriverManager.registerDriver(...) command, then I get NoClassDefFound error. I think it is a problem related to ClassLoader. I can see the deployed driver files in VA under the ClassLoader Viewer. Any idea what's going on here.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Meenu:
    To register de driver the only thing that you have to do it. is the next:
String driverClassName  = "com.sap.portals.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver";
try {
   Driver driver = (Driver) Class.forName (driverClassName).newInstance();
   DriverManager.registerDriver(driver);
   drivers.addElement(driver);
   System.out.println("Registered JDBC driver " + driverClassName);
} catch (Exception e) {
     System.out.println("Can't register JDBC driver: " + driverClassName + ", Exception: " + e);
The drivers comes in the the next jars:
P9sqlserver.jar
P9util.jar
P9base.jar
sapdbc.jar
Good luck!!!
Joshua