Re: ClassNotFoundException onClass.forName("com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver");

    In addition to David's solution, which is the classic one, you can also
put jt400.jar ( or any other jar ) in the jre/lib/ext directory without
specifying the specific jar.  It's a pretty good solution for tools that
will commonly be used across many applications.  You can also use your own
extension dirs, but you must then specify them as a system property.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: ClassNotFoundException
onClass.forName("com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver");


> Ron Anderson wrote:
> > I export the application as a JAR file, I have included the JT400.JAR
> > file within the application JAR. I have also tried just placing the
> > JT400.JAR file in the same directory as the application JAR file, but
> > receive the same error. The classpath is set to the current directory
> > (-cp .). What am I not understanding when it searches for the JDBC
> > driver? Thanks in advance.
>
> Your classpath needs to include the actual JAR that the JT400 classes
> live in.  Including the JT400.JAR in the application JAR does not work
> (as far as I know).  Using '-cp .' tells the JVM to only include classes
> there are in the current directory.
>
> If you extracted the classes from JT400.JAR and included them in your
> application jar, then it would work.
>
> Your classpath should look something like this ... "-classpath
> ./jt400.jar;./application.jar"
>
> david
>
>