JDBC DRIVER LINUX TOMCAT APACHE

Question

Hello all
I am woking on APACHE + TOMCAT + RH LINUX
enviorment . I have a main page which calls another JSP on clicking to a button . That JSP makes connection with oracle 7.3.4 which is running on another machine whose enviorment is AIX 4.2 .
whenever I clicked on button it access the JSP but it could nt find the driver which is classes12.zip in
TOMCAT_HOME/lib directory and classpath is already set
Error I am getting is driver not found in case the statement is
DriverManager.registerDriver (new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
and error is Document contain no data in case I change the above statement to
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
Please help ?
Thanks in Advance
Avi

Answer 1

Thanks for yor reply beattris
Still it didbnt work Please have a look at the code
<%
System.out.println("1");
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
System.out.println("2");
conn = java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@blackadder:1521:ORCL","driver","norman");
stmt = conn.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT FILE_STATUS FROM GOLFFILES WHERE GOLFFILE_ID = (SELECT MAX(GOLFFILE_ID) FROM GOLFFILES)");
while (rs.next()) {
varIsUpdated = rs.getString(1);
rs.close();
stmt.close();
if (varIsUpdated.equals("START") && !(varIsUpdated.equals("LOADED"))) {
conn.close();
%>
Above is the code it comes to JSP and it prints 1 which is above the class.forName statement but after that it wont print 2 .. which means it is able execute this statement
One more thing do .zip files work on linux
Please see if u can help ?
Thanks
KS