Received: from mail.retep.org.uk ([216.126.85.184]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2MEJAt67521 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:19:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from peter@retep.org.uk) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by mail.retep.org.uk (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2MEIw167442; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:18:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from peter@retep.org.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.retep.org.uk: nobody set sender to peter@retep.org.uk using -f To: Silky Mittal Subject: Re: problem compiling the jdbc driver Message-ID: <985270738.3aba09d2e33e8@webmail.retep.org.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:18:58 -0500 (EST) From: Peter T Mount Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org References: <20010321052954.13448.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010321052954.13448.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Archive-Number: 200103/161 X-Sequence-Number: 1322 Quoting Silky Mittal : > > Dear Sir, > i am using postgresql 6.5.3 on red hat 6.2... > i downloaded j2sdk-1_3_0_02-linux-rpm.bin from > java.sun.com and stored it in my root directory with > the same name. > i have jdbc6.5-1.2.jar and > jdbc6.5-1.1.jar in /usr/lib/pgsql > directory. > i use following code for the driver in my java > application: > Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver") > it compiles fine but when i give java filename it > gives the following error: > > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:org/postgresql/Driver Yep. "org.postgresql.Driver" only came in with 7.0. For anything earlier drop the org. part of the package. Peter -- Peter Mount peter@retep.org.uk PostgreSQL JDBC Driver: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/ RetepPDF PDF library for Java: http://www.retep.org.uk/pdf/