Why does WebLogic hate me?

Question

Hello,
I'm running WebLogic 5.1 SP11 locally on my Win2000 machine and I'm
running into numerous problems trying to start this connection pool:
weblogic.jdbc.connectionPool.SupportPool=\
url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@thisistough.com:1521:dbid:dbid,\
driver=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver,\
dll=oci805jdbc.dll,\
initialCapacity=1,\
maxCapacity=2,\
props=user=weblogic;password=hatesme;
allow=guest;support
And this is part of the error message generated by this:
Thu Feb 14 10:04:04 CST 2002:<E> <JDBC Pool> Failed to create
connection pool "SupportPool"
weblogic.common.ResourceException: Could not load
'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver' because
System.loadLibrary threw java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError
with the message 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver'.
This could occur if the JDBC driver is not in the
weblogic.class.path.
If this is a type-2 JDBC driver, it may also indicate that
the Driver native layers(DBMS client lib or driver DLL)
have not been installed properly on your system or in your
environment.
This is most likely caused by one of the following:
1. The native layer SO, SL, or DLL could not be found.
2. The file permissions on the native layer SO, SL, or DLL
have not been set properly.
3. The native layer SO, SL, or DLL exists, but is either
invalid or corrupted.
For more information, read the installation documentation
for your JDBC Driver, available from:
http://www.weblogic.com/docs/install/install_jdbc.html
     at weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.ConnectionEnvFactory.loadDriver(ConnectionEnvFactory.java:89)
     at weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.ConnectionEnvFacto ...
The dll specified in the connection pool is in my PATH, and the
unzipped folder "classes12" is in both my WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH and
JAVA_CLASSPATH (beneath :setJava117, what's that?) that appear in my
startWebLogic.cmd file. These are all things previous newsgroup posts
said to do, yet still I'm stuck.
Any suggestions?, Dave

Answer 1

Hi,
Can you please try to connect to the database from the command line by using utils.dbping,
after setting your environment variables? You cannot create a connection pool
because your server cannot locate your JDBC driver. It is likely to be a classpath
issue. More details about this command at http://www.weblogic.com/docs51/techstart/dbping.html
Laurent Goldsztejn
Developer Relations Engineer
BEA Support