Using JDBC with Oracle

Question

I have just completed compiling and running a simple UI through a java command line interface, however part of my program is running into a problem. I have to connect to Oracle through JDBC, but the server I am not on does not have the oracle drivers. I have copied them over (in tar as distributed) but I have never had to extern any thing like this. I am running on a standard linux bash prompt and need to know what to do to actually change everything so my program can run the database connectivity.
Simply put, is there a way to compile so the byte code never needs the .jar, and if not how about making my program see the jar which is in my root folder (not root on the server, but my user root folder)
I hope that was enough info, if not I'll do my best to provide more.

Answer 1

Hmm, maybe I'm not quite making sense.
Let's say I want to run my program on my neighbor's machine (A) to connect to an Oracle database on my machine (B). My neighbor has Java version 1.4.2, and my machine has Java version 1.4.2 also. My oracle database is running Oracle 8i (8.1.6.0.0) my machine. Let us also assume that my neighbor, while desiring a program to connect to my database, wants everything to be included in a single directory and no global system settings to be permananty changed. He doesn't mind if I change setting for the current session if need be.
Now, I make the Java program on my machine and it works just fine. Since I have Oracle installed on my machine the command "java dbConnect" has no problem running. Now I take the program over to my neighbor's computer with the following files in the current program directory (not the java installation directory):
dbConnect
ojdbc14.jar
This I hope would allow me to run the program since I thought (in error) that the program would probably be able to find the ojdbc14.jar since it is in the directory of the dbConnect program. Unfortunately it runs correctly, then fails to load the oracle driver.
So now here is my real question. I want to be able to have my neighbor run my application, so what do I do to run the application dbConnect.java on their computer?
I have tried the following, however it gives an exception in the thread when I run this
javac dbConnect.java
java -classpath ./ojdbc14.jar dbConnect
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: dbConnect.The program right now is simply a test to see if I can load the driver and make a connection, and it works on my system, so there should be no problems:
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class dbConnect
    //Create an input stream for reading data from the user
    private static BufferedReader stdin =
        new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    public static void main(String[] args)
        try{
            //>Load the Oracle JDBC Drivers
            try
                Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
            catch(Exception e)
                System.out.println("Failed to load Oracle driver.");
                System.exit(0);
            //>Get username, password, and url for Oracle DB connection.
            String user, pass, url;
            System.out.println("Please enter your username: ");
            user = stdin.readLine();
            System.out.println("Please enter your password: ");
            pass = stdin.readLine();
            url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@somewhere:1521:csl";
            Connection conn = null;
            Statement stmt = null;
            //>Successfully connect to the Oracle database using JDBC and CSLab account.
            try
                conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pass);
                System.out.println("Connection made!");
            catch(Exception e)
                System.out.println("Incorrect login information.");
                System.exit(0);
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println("Exception in main program.  Terminating process.");
}