Runtime error - class not found using JDBC driver and thin client

Question

Hi,
We are running a small Java application on a Sun server which acts as a thin client connecting to an Oracle 8i server running on a different server.
JDK version: 1.3.1_01
OS version: Solaris 7
JDBC classes file: classes12.zip
It compiles fine, but get a runtime error (the DriverManager.registerDriver method )
cruncher [40]% javac -classpath /export/home/mrscot/classes12.zip JDBCtest.java
cruncher [41]% java JDBCtest
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/jdbc/driver/OracleDriver
at JDBCtest.main(JDBCtest.java:7)
cruncher [42]%
Program:
import java.sql.*;
import java.math.*;
class JDBCtest {
public static void main (String args []) throws SQLException {
try {
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
"jdbc:oracle:thin@xxxxxxxxx:1521:xxxx", <userid>,<password>);
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement ();
ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery (".............");
while (rset.next ())
System.out.println (rset.getString ("......."));
rset.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Error: " + e);
Any ideas? Probably something very, very stupid I'm overlooking!
Thanks
Scotty ([email protected])

Answer 1

Supplementary question:
Hi,
We are running a small Java application on a Sun server which acts as a thin client connecting to an Oracle 8i server running on a different server.The Oracle version is 8.1.6
Will the 'classes12.zip' for 8.1.7 work with
1.3.1 of the Java JDK, and Oracle 8i 8.16 ??
Thanks Scotty