Is finep trying to load the Oracle driver using Class.forName(String aClassName)?
You should be using Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(String aClassName); That will find your Oracle Driver across multiple classloaders. It is the Java2 way of loading classes and necessary in an environment like Tomcat with its multiple classloaders. Jake At 09:22 AM 5/31/2002 -0300, you wrote: >Why can't I get this right? Is Tomcat crazy? > >I have a set of classes (the package is called "finep") and the oracle >drivers (a file named classes12.jar). > >Well... if I place finep and the oracle drivers in the webapp/WEB-INF dir >(finep in /classes, classes12.jar in /lib) everything works fine... if I >try and place finep in $CATALINA_HOME/classes and $CATALINA_HOME/lib >nothing works.. > >I tried unpacking classes12.jar in /classes, still doesn't work... I tried >to pack everything into jars and place it in /lib... still doesn't work... >what is the matter with this thing? Is it impossible to get this working? >I have several webapps that needs these (finep and oracle drivers). > >Thanks > >.:| Christian J. Dechery >.:| FINEP - Depto. de Sistemas >.:| [EMAIL PROTECTED] >.:| (21) 2555-0332
