Use of MS JDBC Driver

Question

Let me first start by saying I am not an expert at JSP. So this might seem as a easy question to the most of you, but for me it is all new.
I am using a JSP application that uses the sun jdbc driver. Now I am using SQL 2005 and want to create a query with inner joins which not seems to work, so now I want to try the MS JDBC Driver.
Normally the code looks something like this:
<tab:driver>sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver</tab:driver>
<tab:url>jdbc:odbc:myodbcsystemdsn</tab:url>
<tab:user>user</tab:user>
<tab:password>password</tab:password>
<tab:sqlselect>SELECT leverancierid, leveranciernaam, leverancieromschrijving from leverancier</tab:sqlselect>
<tab:sqlfilter></tab:sqlfilter>
<tab:keycolumn>leverancierid</tab:keycolumn>
<tab:columnselect>leverancierid,leveranciernaam,leverancieromschrijving</tab:columnselect>
<tab:headline>leverancierid,leveranciernaam,leverancieromschrijving</tab:headline>
That is the normal use of the JDBC driver. But now I want to use the MS JDBC driver voor MS SQL 2005. I know I have to choose this driver in the first line of the above code. But I do not now how te declare it and was not able to find it in the documentation.
Who can tell me how to declare the MS JDBC driver?

Answer 1

The two main things that would have to change
- driver : com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
- url: jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433
It may be that this page will help you
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/learning/jdbc/
You also need to make sure that the files Msbase.jar , Msutil.jar and Mssqlserver.jar are all available in the "classpath"
For a web app, that means these files should be in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
Good luck,
evnafets