Load oracle driver

Question

Hello;
i got a problem to load the orocle driver, could anyone tell how to do that, thanks.
The oracle driver is sit in "C:\apps\Oracle".
when I run my code, then it tell me that Could not load the oracle driver.
The following is my code for load the driver.
  //try to load the driver
        try {
            Class.forName("C:apps.oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println( "Cannot load the Oracle driver. Include it in your classpath.");
            System.exit( -1);
    }

Answer 1

You are confusing class name with class path.
The class is inside the driver jar. The driver jar needs to be in the classpath available to the application when it runs.
Class.forName() will load the named class.
In other words, you need to make sure your classpath is properly set (outside of Java), and the Class.forName() line should be exactly this:
  Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");