Re: Connecting to Oracle database

[Galbreath, Mark]

Your connection string should be in the form:    Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:oracle:oci8:@"[database_server_name:port number:database_name]", "[userId]", "[password]");   Cheers! Mark -----Original Message----- From: pallav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:20 AM Hi..I have a servlet which needs to access an Oracle Database using JDBC..i installed the driver for it...and it works for local applications...my url string is jdbc:oracle:oci8:@ if i use that in the servlet i dont get any connection...what url should i use? i'm using oracle Personal Edition 8.1.7..do i need to setup some kind of listener from oracle?? thanx for any help.. pallav.