Classpath Woe

[Gerald McCollam]

hi, i've been having the same problem as several others here -- tomcat can't find my oracle jdbc drivers no matter where they're located. i placed a copy of classes12.zip (for oracle) in every conceivable place with no luck and finally decided tomcat doesn't like class packages if they're zipped. my fix is to unzip and re-jar...(i.e. simply renaming the zip file didn't work, duh)   for oracle:   1. unzip the original file (classes11.zip or classes12.zip) into your $TOMCAT_HOME/lib directory. this will place two directories there: oracle and javax. i didn't need javax so i threw it out   2. open a shell and cd to $TOMCAT_HOME/lib   3. jar up the oracle directory using  "jar cvf oracle.jar oracle." you can name the jar file whatever you want.   4. restart tomcat   that worked for me!   cheers   - gerald