Oracle JDBC Connectivity

Question

I am trying to connect to oracle8.0.5 database from JDK1.3 on
windows 2000 os
my program code is as follows
import java.sql.*;
class JEmpt{
public static void main (String args [])
     throws SQLException {
     try
          Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
          Connection conn =
          DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc:oracle:thin:@127.0.0.1:1521:ORCL","SYSTEM","MANAGER");
          Statement stmt = conn.createStatement ();
          ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery ("select
ENAME from EMP");
          while (rset.next ()) {
          System.out.println (rset.getString (1));
     catch(Exception e)
          System.out.println("Exception : "+e.getMessage
but i get the following error
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Connection
refused: no further information
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.check_error<DBError.java:228>
at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init><OracleConnection.java:
110>
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect<OracleDriver.java:148>
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection<Unknown Source>
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection<Unknown Source>
at Employee.main<Employee.java:23>
your help wii be highly appreciated
looking forward for yr reply
lekha

Answer 1

Hi lekha
try this:
import oracle.jdbc.driver.*;
DriverManager.registerDriver(new OracleDriver());
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(...)
and ensure that your CLASSPATH can see
classes111.zip/classes12.zip.
Tarik