jdbc location in Tomcat

[wwworg]

Hey guys,

I am using Oracle 8i, tomcat 5.5 and J2SE 1.5

I have downloaded the JDBC driver for Oracle. It is classes.zip, some people say I just need to rename it to classes.jar and copy it in Tomcat shared/lib directory. Is this all I have to do???? I dont have to unzip the classes.zip?? Also, in my classespath do I need to specify classes.jar or classes.zip.

Also, I have tried to rename it, but it becomes classes.jar.zip, which means it is still a zip file.

Any thoughts

Thanks

 

[sedj]

I think you will find the file is called classes12.zip, not classes.zip.

In any case, rename the file classes12.jar, and add it to shared/lib or common/lib. This will then be picked up by the default tomcat class loader, you do not need to specify it by name in the CLASSPATH variable if you are just using Tomcat.

If you are having problems actually renaming the file, then I suggest you ask how to rename files in your operating system - this is not really a tomcat related problem.

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