Hi, I'm using Cloudscape 3.6 / Tomcat 4.0. I've written a very simple hello world kind of servlet, which basically loads the driver and gets the database connection. I'm able to load the driver (COM.cloudscape.core.JDBCDriver), but whenever I'm trying to get the connection using DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:cloudscape:CloudscapeDB;create=true"); I'm getting the following exception: No suitable driver at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:537) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:199) at hello.HelloWorld.doDBStuff(HelloWorld.java:52) at hello.HelloWorld.doGet(HelloWorld.java:30) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilt erChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain. java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:2 43) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:2 19) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2251) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:446) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:163 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:984) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1074) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) I've placed all the cloudscape .jar files (RmiJdbc.jar, cloudclient.jar, clouscape.jar, cloudutil.jar) in the WEB-INF/lib directory. I've been hitting against wall for quite some time now, but no luck. I think this is a very basic code and somebody must have tried this. Any pointers would be appreciated. Regards, -Arun ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag