Using Java to connect to an Oracle database

Question

This Java code compiles fine, but when I try to run it I get:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver

Here is my code:

import java.sql.*;

public class TestConnection {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        //connect to database
        Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
        String serverName = "000.000.000.000";
        String portNumber = "1521";
        String sid = "abcd";
        String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@" + serverName + ":" + portNumber + ":" + sid;
        String username = "user";
        String password = "pass";
        Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
    }
}

How do I get this to work? I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and JDK 6.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need the Oracle jars.

You can get them from here.