Unable to connect to Oracle8i

Question

Hi all,
I am having some real difficulty in connecting a Win98 client running oci-jdbc driver to a Oracle 8i server.
Here is my environment:
Client machine config
Win98
jdk 1.2.2
ocijdbc8.dll in c:\oracle\ora81\lib
classes12.zip in c:\oracle\ora81\jdbc\lib
Net8 client
Server machine config
Redhat Linux 6.2
Oracle8i version 8.1.5.0.0
I started the listerner, open the database instance and mount the database on the server. I can connect to the Oracle server by running the GUI sqlplus.exe on the client machine.
But when I run the jdbc sample application "JdbcCheckup.java", the connection was not successful after I type in the user name, password, and TSAName (same as the SERVICE_NAME) on the init.ora file. Below is the output from my terminal
Output on running JdbcCheckup
C:\Oracle\Ora81\jdbc\demo\samples\oci8\basic-samples>java JdbcCheckup
Please enter information to test connection to the database
user: scott
password: tiger
database (a TNSNAME entry): i815
Connecting to the database...Connecting...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Oracle\Ora81\BIN\o
cijdbc8.dll: ?s????t????Y???m?S???@?QC
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1319)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1243)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:470)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:778)
at oracle.jdbc.oci8.OCIDBAccess.logon(OCIDBAccess.java:209)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:198)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(OracleDriver.ja
va:251)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:224)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:457)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:137)
at JdbcCheckup.main(JdbcCheckup.java, Compiled Code)
Please let me know what is wrong. Thanks.
Best regards,
Simon Lee
Email: [email protected]
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Answer 1

ocijdbc8.dll must be in c:\oracle\ora81\bin not in c:\oracle\ora81\lib
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