JDBC driver - Class oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver not found.

Question

Greetings:
When I tried to compile an test script (as attached below) to test the driver, I always ended up with the following error message:
....java:17: Class oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver not found.
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Could somebody shine some light on it? I would very much appreciate it.
By the way, I have an Oracle DBMS (8.1.7) with jre1.1.7. My Java is jdk1.2 and the driver is ocijdbc8.dll
Wil
*************** The test script *************
import java.sql.*;
class Users
public static void main (String args [])
throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException
// Load the Oracle JDBC driver
Class.forName ("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
// Connect to the database
// You can put a database name after the @ sign in the connection URL.
Connection conn =
DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:oci8:@US10", "QM24202E", "QM24202E");
// Create a Statement
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement ();
// Select ... table
ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery ("select USERID from USERS");
// Iterate through the result and print the ... names
while (rset.next ())
System.out.println (rset.getString (1));

Answer 1

check out what thomas Fly wrote on another discussion forum about connection with JDBC, i tried it and i haven't gotten it
to work yet but at least i don't have the "... not found" error,
you should try it too, and i think it's good to tell you that i
still haven't installed the oracle client on my windows Me PC.
Hope this help you
This may help also... I have Oracle installed on a Linux PC at 192.168.1.4 on my LAN, listening on port 1521. I can connect from another PC (Linux / Windows ME dual boot, though running Windows at the time of this experiment) using the following program:
import java.sql.*;
public class sqlLookup {
public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException {
String dbUrl = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.1.4:1521:ORA8";
String user = "thomasfly";
String password = "maverick";
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection(dbUrl, user, password);
Statement s = c.createStatement();
// SQL code:
ResultSet r = s.executeQuery("select * from members");
while(r.next()) {
// Capitalization doesn't matter:
System.out.println(r.getString("Name") + ", " + r.getString("id") + ": " + r.getString("email") );
s.close(); // Also closes ResultSet
I downloaded classes12.zip for Oracle 8.1.7 and put it into the C:\Windows directory, and mounted C:\Windows\classes12.zip in Forte for Java (equivalent to adding it to the classpath if I were running the program from a DOS window, rather than in Forte).
ORA8... capitalization may be important... is the name of my database, which may be found in the tnsnames.ora file in $ORACLE_HOME/resources.
The query gets the Name, id, and email fields from the table "members" in the database.
This is just a barebones program, and each time it's run, the Oracle listener has to be stopped and restarted before the program can be successfully run again.