"inder" wrote:

> Hi,
>
>         I'm having trouble connecting to Sql Server 2000 via Java 2 (5.0). 
> I'm on Windows Server 2003 and trying to connect locally from the
> server.  I've downloaded the jar files (mssqlserver.jar,msutil.jar,
> msbase.jar) containing the jdbc driver from microsoft and placed them in
> the same directory as my java file, below is a snippet of my code to
> test the connection:
>
> public void openTest() throws Exception
> {
>    
>     Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver" );
>            
>     Connection m_Conn = DriverManager.getConnection           
>     ("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://local:1433", "", "");
> }
>
>
> I compile using the following command there are no errors:
> javac -classpath ".;./mssqlserver.jar;./msbase.jar;./msutil.jar"
> Test.java
> 
> At runtime i get the following error,
>
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> com.microsoft.jdbc.
> sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>         at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
>         at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>         at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
>         at Hello.openTest(HelloPrint.java:30)
>         at HelloPrint.main(HelloPrint.java:11)
>
>
>
> Can anyone help?  Many thanks in advance.
>
> Inder
>