Hi Frank, If renaming it to jar and putting it in common/lib/ doesn't work, unzip it and put the files in common/classes/.
Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Re: JDBC Driver Installation > > Is it a bug that tomcat can't recognize oracle's classes12.zip > even though I installed it in the "common/lib"? > > thanks, > frank > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rick Fincher wrote: > > > Hi Frank, > > > > Putting it in the common/lib directory is the correct place for it if you > > want it accessible by Tomcat and alll your web apps. That way you don't > > have multiple copies of your JDBC driver cluttering up your system. Put it > > in WEB-INF/lib makes it available to only that web app. > > > > This is explained in README in the Tomcat docs. > > > > Rick > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Frank Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:06 PM > > Subject: JDBC Driver Installation > > > > > > > > > > for mysql jdbc driver, I just copied "mysql-connector-java-2.0.14-bin.jar" > > > to the "tomcat/common/lib" directory and restart tomcat. the application > > > can find the driver without a problem. Is this the right way to install > > > the jdbc driver? or shall it copy it to the application's own > > > "WEB-INF/lib" directory? Which is the preferred way? > > > > > > today when I try the same thing for the oracle jdbc driver > > "classes12.zip", > > > this trick doesn't work anymore. I have to rename it to "classes12.jar" > > > before I copy to "tomcat/common/lib". Am I doing something wrong or > > > this is the way? Why wouldn't oracle release it as "classes12.jar" then? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Frank -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
