Oracle JDBC Driver load
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; public class TestClassForNameApp { public static void main(String args[]) { try { Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { System.out.println("Oops! Can't find class oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"); System.exit(1); } Connection conn = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rset = null; try { conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@dssw2k01:1521:orcl", "scott", "tiger"); stmt = conn.createStatement(); rset = stmt .executeQuery("select 'Hello '||USER||'!' result from dual"); while (rset.next()) System.out.println(rset.getString(1)); rset.close(); rset = null; stmt.close(); stmt = null; conn.close(); conn = null; } catch (SQLException e) { System.out.println("Darn! A SQL error: " + e.getMessage()); } finally { if (rset != null) try { rset.close(); } catch (SQLException ignore) { } if (stmt != null) try { stmt.close(); } catch (SQLException ignore) { } if (conn != null) try { conn.close(); } catch (SQLException ignore) { } } } }