Question

I am trying to connect to an oracle database in eclipse. I have ojdbc14.jar in a lib folder in the same project and i added it to the build path of my project, so it also resides in the Referenced Libraries directory, but yet i still get an output to the console of “Could not find the database driver”

Myself and another student employee have been trying to get this figured out for the past day and a half, and no one else in our department is experienced in Java and JSP so i thought StackOverflow would be our best bet =)

try {
            // Load the JDBC driver
            String driverName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
            System.out.println("Attempting to load the driver...");
            Class.forName(driverName);
            System.out.print("Loaded the driver");

            // Create a connection to the database
            String serverName = " ;) ";
            String portNumber = " ;) ";
            String sid = " ;) ";
            String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@" + serverName + ":"
                    + portNumber + ":" + sid;
            String username = "kenne13";
            String password = "**********";
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
            if (connection != null) {
                return true;
            }

        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            // Could not find the database driver
            System.out.println("Could not find the database driver");
            connected = false;
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            // Could not connect to the database
            System.out.println("Could not connect to the database");
            connected = false;
        }

Here is the output in the console:

    Aug 18, 2011 10:07:50 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
    INFO: Server startup in 382 ms
    Attempting to load the driver...
    Could not find the database driver

Here is a screen capture of the code, the error, and my project directories.

Answer 1

I’m quite sure now that the class name of the driver is oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver and not oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.