Problems with jsp and jdbc

Question

I am writing a simple class to start learning about jdbc. I wrote the following WHICH COMPILES:
public MyClass {
System.out.println("establishing connection...");
OracleConnectionPoolDataSource ods = new OracleConnectionPoolDataSource();
// this is where all the variables are initialised.
ods.setDriverType ("oci8");
ods.setServerName ("test");
ods.setNetworkProtocol ("tcp");
ods.setDatabaseName ("tester");
ods.setPortNumber (1521);
ods.setUser ("test");
ods.setPassword ("password");
// this is the variable that will get the connection pool.
// from this connection pool, you will get all ur connections.
pool = new OracleConnectionCacheImpl(ods);
and i am calling it by:
System.out.println("connecting to DataBase");
dbc = new MyClass();
System.out.println("connected to DataBase");
THIS WORKS FINE when i do either a command line execution - run a query thru a normal main method.
HOWEVER, when i try and call it from a jsp page, i get the following error from tomcat:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: oracle/jdbc/pool/OracleDataSource
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:248)
furthermore, the first system.out.println("establishing connection"); is not printed. "Connecting to Database" is printed however. i am really confused.
however, i have an ancient copy of tomcat 3.2 that i used - just to test - and that worked fine. i have to get this to work with tomcat 4.1.
i am really in a jam - any insights, please help!!!
thankyou so much.

Answer 1

Mahesh,
It is the problem of your DRIVER not being in the classpath of TOMCAT. Put the driver in the lib folder of tomcat or else include the folder which contains the driver to the tomcat classpath. It should work OK.
Good Luck.
Sekar