Help with installing and using ORacle JDBC driver

[matpj]

Hi all,
I have downloaded (I think) the JDBC driver for Oracle from the Oracle website.
it was downloaded as a jar file.

the only thing is, I have no idea how to use it or where to put.
I think I know the command to connect to the database, but at the moment I cant even get that far!

any help on where to put the file and what to do in my script to 'see' the driver would be appreciated.

thanks,
Matt

[serjant]

You should import it into your project

[matpj]

hi serjant,

thanks for the reply, but how?
I have only just started looking at java - having never written any outside of my week long course 3 months ago.

If I have the .jar file from Oracle, how do I import it into my project?

(what I am writing needs to be deployed so that it can be run by any user)
thanks,
Matt

[serjant]

What do you use?Eclipse?NetBeans?

[matpj]

I use net beans..
is it different for different IDE's?

I thought Java would be java no matter what IDE it is developed in.

[serjant]

So create there a new Java Project,then as i remember,go to properties of the project ,and search where you can add the libraries,jar etc,and add your oracle jar file.

[matpj]

excellent. I didn't realise it was that simple.
I'm at home this weekend, but wanted to try and find out before getting back to work on monday.
I'm assuming that when I create a jar file of my application, the Oracle one gets bundled in with it so users don't need to worry about downloading it..