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Connecting to an Oracle DB

 
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I have tried this in Netbeans and was able to connect and write data to a table, but not query(kept getting an error on the SQL statement). Anyways I am working on this from scratch not using NetBeand and would like to know how I connect to a DB and get data from it. NetBeans seems to use an entity manager, but I think there's another way too. Anyone have any useful links. I was reading through Head First Java but I did not see anywhere they talk about connecting to Oracle.
 
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Is this sort of what you are talking about?

http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/edu/db/oracle-and-java
 
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C:\Java>java OraThin > oraThin.log
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at OraThin.main(OraThin.java:8)

C:\Java>


This is what I get when I copy the code from that example, edit the details to connect to my DB , compile and run. Seems to not be able to load the drivers. I'm using Oracle 10G and it's loaded directly onto my computer so the drivers should be there I would assume.
 
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We usually discuss this sort of thing in the JDBC forum . . . moving.
 
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I have found the path to be correct. oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
when I run java c:\oracle\jdbc\driver\OracleDriver I get errors. "Exception in thread "main" ".

It may be that I have Java 1.6 and the latest Oracle driver I saw was for Java 1.4-1.5. Should I uninstall and reinstall 1.5?
 
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I am guessing you are using JDBC driver to connect to the oracle database here. So, the driver resides in a jar file which needs to be in your CLASSPATH. so, look for something like classes.jar or ojdbc.jar etc in your oracle home's JDBC directory.

The way to configure your classpath in windows is:

CMD> set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;<path_to_oracle_jar_file.jar>

Also, the actual jar file needs to be in the classpath (absolute path with the extension included), not just the directory path.

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I don't have a .jar file, just .class files. I downloaded a .jar file and used the jar command to install/extract it. Althougth I'm not sure where it went to. But it was for a java version 1.5. I found a ojdbc14.jar inside c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdbc\lib I was going to place that path into the program, but not sure how the 10.2.0 would work since it uses dots to separate.

Okay I've redownloaded the .jar file and placed it into the c:\oracle\jdbc\driver folder. Added it to CLASSPATH. In DOS when to do java ojdbc14.jar I get errors. I read that it should give the version of the driver. seems like Java and the driver are not liking each other.
 
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I found a ojdbc14.jar inside c:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdbc\lib I was going to place that path into the program, but not sure how the 10.2.0 would work since it uses dots to separate.


This should be OK, but to be safe, just enclose the whole path in double quotes eg.



What version of java are you using?



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java version 1.6.0_10

I have moved the jar file to c:\oracle\jdbc and changed the classPath

My concern is that I cannot even run the jar file. Shouldn't I just have to run java <name of jar file> and get something like a version number as the output.
 
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My concern is that I cannot even run the jar file. Shouldn't I just have to run java <name of jar file> and get something like a version number as the output.



I am not sure what you try to do with runnning the ojdbc14.jar file ?

You can directly point jar file in the CLASSPATH , and no need to extract it.
If say your jar is in c:\oracle\jdbc path , then
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;"c:\oracle\jdbc\ojdbc14.jar"; shd do and can be called from your java application.

BTW , oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver Class is deprecated and use instead oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver.

Four your additional information , the oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver cannnot be even accessed in Oracle 11g with ojdbc5.jar as the Class is changed to default access.

 
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Here's the errors I get when I try to run it.

C:\Java>java OraThin
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: OraThin
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: OraThin
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: OraThin. Program will exit.

C:\Java>


And yes the file is named OraThin.java and yes I compiled it and there's a OraThin.class file.
 
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C:\Java>java OraThin
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: OraThin
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: OraThin



Is your class file OraThin is inside C:/Java ? try to run from the same directory as you have the class file

Also add the "." at the end of the CLASSPATH


Edited : for proper understanding
 
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The class file is located in c:\java

I added the semi-colon at the end of the classpath and now got a different error.


C:\Java>java OraThin
java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the
connection
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java
:112)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java
:146)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java
:255)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:387)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.<init>(PhysicalConnection.java:
441)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.<init>(T4CConnection.java:165)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CDriverExtension.getConnection(T4CDriverExtensio
n.java:35)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:801)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
at OraThin.main(OraThin.java:9)

C:\Java>



The Oracle DB is located on my computer but I put in the IP address. can I just put localhost? Looks like it's not connecting now.
 
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Is yours static IP ? Yes use localhost instead , also make sure you "test" SID available and Oracle server is running.
 
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Okay I changed it to @localhost and it ran with no errors. now I can get it to write data and query data I will be golden.
 
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Okay I can write to the table, and query that table. But how do I query using a where statment and a variable?

I can have
("select * from Login where uname = 'james3302'")

But of course I need to be able to use a variable there.
 
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Are you using Statement or PreparedStatement ?

If Statement then
userName = "james3302"
"select * from Login where name ='"+ userName + "'"

If Prepared Statement then
userName = "james3302"
query = "select * from Login where uname = ? " ;
ps = con.prepareStatement(query);
ps.setString(1,userName);


Anyway regardless of it, If you dont understand any of the above , Please learn the basics of JDBC and come back with queries.

 
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Thanks for the link, but I have already read through that. I just cannot seem to get the syntax right.

I copied and pasted your example code and it works. I must have typed your code wrong.
 
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