Weblogic8.1 and jconnect6

Question

How do we migrate to jconnect6 for weblogic8.1 and Sybase? How does weblogic server know which version of jconn{2,3}.jar to use? I tried replacing jconn2.jar with jconn3.jar and jconnect5_5 with jConnect6, still WL is looking for jdbc2 classes. Would there be separate versions of jConnect.jar as well?

Answer 1

Sreeram Reddy wrote:
How do we migrate to jconnect6 for weblogic8.1 and Sybase?
How does weblogic server know which version of jconn{2,3}.jar to use?
I tried replacing jconn2.jar with jconn3.jar and jconnect5_5 with jConnect6,
still WL is looking for jdbc2 classes. Would there be separate versions of jConnect.jar as well?WebLogic uses the first version of a particular class that it finds in it's classpath.
We do ship a version of Sybase'e driver, in the server\lib directory. You can replace
it with a newer version if you like. However, note that Sybase's jconn3 driver has
different class names than the jconn2, so in order to use them, you should edit
your start-weblogic script to add a line like:
set CLASSPATH=\mydir\jconn3.jar;\mydir\jConnect3.jar;%CLASSPATH%
and then you must tell the pool the name of the new driver class. It
would default to the older class name.
Joe