Cant LOAD the Oracle Driver Error

[sufia]

hi,

Everytime i try to run the following code (which is a part of my
servlet):
try
{

Class.forName( "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" );
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver());
}

catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
{
out.println("Could not load the driver");
e.printStackTrace ();
}

I seem to end up in an error that says "could not load the
driver", which i guess comes from my catch block above. Can anyone
explain why this is happening?

thanks in advance
sufia

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"sufia" <ze*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| hi,
|
| Everytime i try to run the following code (which is a part of my
| servlet):
| try
| {
|
| Class.forName( "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" );
| DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver());
| }
|
|
|
| catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
| {
| out.println("Could not load the driver");
| e.printStackTrace ();
| }
|
|
|
| I seem to end up in an error that says "could not load the
| driver", which i guess comes from my catch block above. Can anyone
| explain why this is happening?
|
| thanks in advance
| sufia

I would imagine that the jar containing the driver is not on your classpath.
Is the jar in your WEB_INF/lib directory?

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