Quoting Bart <bart@alator.kotnet.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I installed debian 2.2r2 with _all_ the postgres-packages, I created a
> database and via psql I can do whatever I want with the DB. Now I'm
> trying to make a connection via a Java-program. I downloaded the
> jdbc-6.5-1.2.jar file and renamed it to jdbc.jar and moved it to
> ~/jdk1.3/lib, set the CLASSPATH to ~/jdk1.3/lib and used a program,
> found in the Deitel&Deitel Java book.
It can be put anywhere, not just ~/jdk1.3/lib...
> After that, I tried to make a connection to the database I created
> (testing) and I keep getting error-messages.
>
> Can someone help me with this? I'm trying for 3 days now and still no
> luck.
[snip]
> String url = "jdbc:odbc:testing"; // I also tried with
<String url =
> "jdbc:postgres:testing";>
"jdbc:postgresql:testing"
> String username = "postgres";
> String password = "notentered";
> Class.forName("jdbc.Driver");
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
Peter
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