What version of TC are you using? I wouldn't put the jar file there, no! Try in %TC HOME%\common\lib, whereever that is.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Munroe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:50 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Classloading Question I am connecting my application to a Oracle XE database and I am having a weird issue with classloading. According to the classloading documentation [1] I should be placing the Oracle JDBC jar file ojdbc14.jar in $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib, but when I do that, my application throws a Cannot load JDBC driver class 'oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver' exception. This also happens if I move the jar file to WEB-INF/lib too. The only way I can get it to work is to place it in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib Any ideas? I've attached my test case and it's the application level context.xml file thanks -- brian [1] - http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html ========= index.jsp (well, the important parts) ========= InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(); DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/XEDB"); Connection conn = ds.getConnection(); ========= context.xml ========= <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context> <Resource name="jdbc/XEDB" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:brian/password@//localhost:1521/XE" maxActive="8" /> </Context> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
