Hi I am trying to connect to an oracle DB (8.0.5) running Linux. The webserver that I am using is the Java Webserver 2.0 which I downloaded from the Sun website and it is runing NT. the code I am using to register the driver is: DriverManager.registerDriver(DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver()); Or Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"); In either case the Webserver throws an the "ClassNotFoundException" "Unable to find class "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" If I use the JDeveloper internal webserver then my servlet works fine and a connection to the database is established. I tried to copy the file classes111.zip to the servlets directory but it still does not work. I have been trying to sort this problem out for a couple of days now but no luck as yet. Does it have any thing to deal with which JDK version is installed on the JavaWebServer2.0 or not..... Could any one help me!!!! Urgent Thank you very much. Tarek Shaar. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html