Simple Dir Listing save to Oracle Temp Table

Question

Hello All, any help appreciated...
I'm trying to perform the following:
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class DirList
// public static void getList(String directory)
public static String getList(String directory)
throws SQLException
File path = new File( directory );
String[] list = path.list();
String element;
String element2;
element2 = "";
for(int i = 0; i < list.length; i++)
element = list;
element2 = element2 + ":" + list[i];
// #sql {INSERT INTO DIR_LIST (FILENAME)
// VALUES (:element)};
return element2;
Issues:
I found the above code snippet from AskTom on Oracle's web site... exactly what I want to do, but cant get it to work/compile...
1) Cannot get the #sql statement to compile... Thus I created the variable String element2, which works, except for large directories... It would be nice if I could insert each element into the temporary table and then use sql... Am I missing something with the #sql statement? Is it not within java.sql? on my system? How to verify this/ workarounds?
2) the only way I could load this (with #sql commented out) was via loadjava... I tried loading within the database via sqlplus but get the following error...
ORA-29536: badly formed source: Encountered "<EOF>" at line 1, column 24.
example:
CREATE or replace and compile java source
named "MyTimestampx"
as
import java.lang.String;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
public class MyTimestampx
public static String getTimestamp()
return (new
Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())).toString();
produces the above error...
any ideas why it fails to load via the above method?
thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I solved this issue and perhaps this may help others...
I coded the insert statement a better way and
as for the error with sqlplus, EOF, the answer is:
You have to use 8i or above sqlplus
the 8.0 plus doesn't understand the "create or replace and compile ..." syntax and is prematurely submitting the CREATE statement to the database.
Viola... my client sqlplus version is 8.0.6....
Installing 8i...
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