URL string format for connecting to Oracle database with JDBC

Question

I\'m a newbie to Java-related web development, and I can\'t seem to get a simple program with JDBC working. I\'m using off-the-shelf Oracle 10g XE and the Eclipse EE IDE. Fr

Answer 1

Look here.

Your URL is quite incorrect. Should look like this:

url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:orcl"

You don't register a driver class, either. You want to download the thin driver JAR, put it in your CLASSPATH, and make your code look more like this.

UPDATE: The "14" in "ojdbc14.jar" stands for JDK 1.4. You should match your driver version with the JDK you're running. I'm betting that means JDK 5 or 6.