class not found error

[padma vvvs]

I am getting problem in conncting to database using jdbc.It's throwing " class not found" exception thin driver.I don't know what to install for getting access to all jdbc drivers for using jdbc.
One more thing is that i installed/uninstalled oracle9i many times.While uninstalling i might have deleted some of the files which should not be done.Can you help me in this regard please
regards.

[edited to make subject meaningful - was "hi"]
[ May 07, 2007: Message edited by: Jeanne Boyarsky ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

That means that the Oracle JDBC driver is not in your classpath. Consult the Oracle documentation to see where that gets installed. If you inadvertently deleted it, you can probably get it from Oracles web site as well.

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Did you check if your Driver jar is in your classpath?

[Satish SN]

Hi Padma,
Search for classes12.jar (oracle thin drivers ) file in your system or else try to download one and put the same in the classpath and recompile the java program the reported exception should not come again

[Jan Cumps]

hi,

Oracle initially distributed it's Oracle8 driver library as: classes12.zip.
If you're using Oracle 9i (and JDK >= 1.4), the drivers are distributed as ojdbc14.jar.

So you have to check for: classes12.zip, or classes12.jar, or ojdbc14.jar in your classpath.

Recompile the java program

This is not necessary.

Regards, Jan
[ May 07, 2007: Message edited by: Jan Cumps ]