Local Java to Oracle Connection

Question

Hi
I have Intellij Java IDE and 10g XE on my PC and am trying to get connectivity between them. I am not 100% sure but does connecting to XE require some extra configuration on XE. Someone was talking about this a while back but I can't trace the documentation and the person can't really remember talking about it!
Thanks
Andrew

Answer 1

Here is the connection class code:
public class CreateJDBC {
public void makeConnection() {
Connection con = null;
Statement stmnt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
try {
forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:HR/hr@//localhost:1521/XE");
stmnt = con.createStatement();
rs = stmnt.executeQuery("Select * from Jobs");
while (rs.next()) {
System.out.println(rs.getObject(2));
catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
catch (SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
finally {
if (con != null)
try {
con.close();
stmnt.close();
rs.close();
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
And this class to try and run it:
public class TestCreateJDBC {
private static ResultSet rs = null;
public static void main (String[] args) {
CreateJDBC jd = new CreateJDBC();
jd.makeConnection();
I keep getting 'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ConnectToDatabase.Connect' problem and don't know if I need additional libraries or change classpath. I cannot seem to find any simple solution to this problem.
Can anyone help?
Andrew