JDBC Help - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

Question

This has been one of the greatest headaches I've had since I started programming 10+ years ago. I've just started learning Java, and I really need to connect to a JDBC database (Sybase). Please, help me!!
I've stripped my code down, because this is the part that's causing the code to generate the error:
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.File;
public class test {
     public static void main() {
          Class.forName("ianywhere.ml.jdbcodbc.IDriver");
}The error message is:
test.java:6: unreported exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
     Class.forName("ianywhere.ml.jdbcodbc.IDriver");
          ^I'm using the following JDBC driver:
http://astronomicus.net/jodbc.jar
I'm typing this in to compile the code:
javac -classpath "%ASANY9%\java\jodbc.jar" test.javaAnd finally, my CLASSPATH is:
.;C:\j2sdk1.4.1_07\bin;%ASANY9%\java\
The driver is located in the "%ASANY9%\java\" directory.
Thank you so much for your help!!!
Message was edited by:
tate_etc
Message was edited by:
tate_etc

Answer 1

Pu the statement in a try catch block.