Re: Tomcat4.0:-java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver ..

[David Morsberger <da...@home.com>]

I agree. My main point is that the issue should be explicitly stated in the
documentation. Multiple resolutions can be included.

> From: Jan Labanowski <jk...@osc.edu>
> Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:59:28 -0500 (EST)
> To: Tomcat Users List <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Cc: Jan Labanowski <jk...@osc.edu>
> Subject: Re: 
> Tomcat4.0:-java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver ..
> 
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, David Morsberger wrote:
> 
>> I had the same problem and converting the .zip to a .jar worked. I reviewed
>> the documentation and I could not find any mention of zip files. Does the
>> absence of info on zip files imply they are not supported?
>> 
>> I think the Tomcat 3.3 and 4.0 documentation should be updated to explicitly
>> state that zip files and not supported by the servlet spec and therefore
>> must be converted to jar files and stored in the /lib directory.
>> 
> 
> The thing is much simpler than that... When Tomcat starts via one of the
> scripts, it looks into certain directories for the JAR files and adds them to
> the CLASSPATH. It looks for JAR files... It does not look for the ZIP files...
> If you just rename the ZIP file to a JAR file, it will be found...
> 
> Jan
> 
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