Loading jdbc driver

[Andy Wickson]

Hi,

I am attempting to access a Cloudscape DB.
The driver is com.ibm.db2j.jdbc.DB2jDriver and this class is present in the relevant 
jar file which is in CLASSPATH.

My web.xml file contains the following:
    <init-param>   
      <param-name>driver</param-name>
      <param-value>com.ibm.db2j.jdbc.DB2jDriver</param-value>
    </init-param>

and my servlet attempts to load it thus:

String driver = getServletConfig().getInitParameter("driver");
    
    if (driver == null) {
      throw new UnavailableException("Driver not specified.");
    } 

    try {
      Class.forName(driver);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
      throw new UnavailableException("Driver <" + driver 
                                     + "> not found in the classpath.");
    } 

The ClassNotFoundException is thrown when the servlet is called.

Any ideas?

Regards
Andy Wickson