As mentioned thousands of times before on this list (and probably lots of times on Oracle's tech support lists and most definitely the servlet specification), the WEB-INF/lib only automatically loads .jar files. If you rename classes12.zip to classes12.jar everything will work fine.
Randy > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: .zip file in app/WEB-INF/lib > > > when i added the classes12.zip to my classpath for oracle JDBC, fine. > however, i added that zip file to myapp/WEB-INF/lib, it says: > "could not find suitable driver" > > should i add something to web.xml as well? >