java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver 1

[OhioSteve]

I want my Eclipse web application to communicate with a hypersonic database. Both are on my PC. Luckily, Hypersonic offers a jdbc driver (in a .jar file) for this purpose. Unfortunately, I CANNOT get the project to notice the .jar file. So far I have tried these fixes:

1. I added a CLASSPATH environmental variable and entered the file's address.
2. I added the copied the .jar file into the web application's src directory. Then I went to the project's properties and choose "add external jar" and choose .jar file.
3. I went to the manifest file and made this entry:
Class-Path: src/hsqldb.jar

In spite of all this, I still get this error message:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver

How can I fix this?!?

 

[timw]

Using the 'add external jar' in the Eclipse project's build path will allow Eclipse to see the jar for code compilation and running from within Eclipse.

However, if this is a web application, then it figures that is will be run inside some servlet container such as Tomcat. By definition, any jars contained in the web application's WEB-INF/lib directory will automatically be added to that application's classpath by the container.

Tim

 

[OhioSteve]

I used Eclipse's import feature to import the .jar file to the WEB-INF/lib directory. It worked immediately! Thank you so much!