libocijdbc8.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (libocijdbc8.so)

[Mehul S Dave <me...@tifr.res.in>]

Hello.
             Hi it was going all fine.
             I am using JDBC . oci8 for Oracle Driver
             it was working well & very fine & 
             suddenly now whenever i invoke an servlet of any JDBC driver
             this error comes.

          Error :java.lang.NullPointerException:
2001-07-29 21:50:59 - Ctx( /sdsi ): Exception in: R( /sdsi +
/servlet/sdsi.sdsi
+ null) - java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no ocijdbc8 in shared library
path
        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java)
        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java)
        at oracle.jdbc.oci8.OCIDBAccess.logon(OCIDBAccess.java)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(OracleDriver.ja
va)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:83)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:126)
        at sdsi.sdsi.doGet(sdsi.java:29)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:4
05)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372
)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.
java:812)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758
)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnectio
n(HttpConnectionHandler.java:213)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:
416)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java
:501)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)

Please help.
Thanks in Advance


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Mehul S Dave
Scientific Officer, (STCS Dept.),
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Phone - 2152971 Extn - 2372
Mumbai .
webpage:- http://www.csc.tifr.res.in/~mehul
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