Re: Newbie - problem accessing DB2 with Java program.

zalek wrote:
> On Mar 16, 6:49 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> zalek wrote:
>>> In my installation we have DB2 on a mainframe computer. I am able to
>>> access DB2 from my PC (WinXP) using some utilities. I wrote a Java
>>> program to access DB2, but I am getting errors.
>>> After command:
>>> Class.forName("COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver");
>>> I am getting exception:
>>> Exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>>> COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver
>>> I copied db2java.zip and db2jcc.jar files to a default directory of
>>> JBuilder, even to the same directory where I have my program,  but it
>>> did not help.
>>> What I am doing wrong?
>> You need to put the JDBC driver jar file in classpath. Just putting
>> then in those directories does not put them in classpath.
> 
> I tried - it did not help.
> I am using JBuilder to write my program, so I moved db2java.zip and
> db2jcc.jar to
> C:\JBuilder2005\jdk1.4\bin and
> C:\JBuilder2005\jdk1.4\lib
> 
> On top of it I found a directory in a classpath variable and move this
> files to this directory - nothing helped. Still getting the same
> error.

I repeat:

Just putting a jar file in a directory does not put it in classpath.

(with a few exceptions that does not apply here)

You need explicitly to tell JBuilder to use this jar file.

Arne