On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Lim Cheng Peck-A15349 wrote:
> Hi Peter T Mount , Murad Nayal and all,
> Referring to the subject above on POSTGRESQL JDBC Interface mailing
> list, I still
> can't find any exact solution on how to solve the problem if we have the "No
> suitable driver exception" error on
> APPLET from IE5(Microsoft (R) VM for Java (tm), 4.0 Release 4.79.0.2339) and
> Netscape 4.61 (Java1.1.5).
> I did the Applet compilation (JAVAC) with JDK 1.2. Is this is the
> main problem ??
IE only supports 1.1.x (I've seen some people say it won't support 1.2
ever, but I'm not sure).
Peter
>
>
>
> Here is my HTML file for the applet
> database.jar is included postgresql classes and VLookup classes.
>
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> <APPLET CODE="VLookup.class"
> archive="database.jar"
> WIDTH=800 HEIGHT=800>
> </APPLET>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
>
>
> Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
> Best Regards,
> CPLIM
>
>
>
>
> Your QUESTION-ANSWER on Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:54:31 -0500
>
>
> Re: [INTERFACES] [Fwd: postgresql JDBC driver question]
>
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> From: Murad Nayal <murad@godel.bioc.columbia.edu>
> To: Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] [Fwd: postgresql JDBC driver question]
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:54:31 -0500
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> Peter T Mount wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Murad Nayal wrote:
>
> > > I am baffled:
> > >
> > > I wrote a small java program to test postgresql jdbc driver. the
> applet
> > > runs fine locally using applet viewer. indicating that the driver is
> > > recognizing the url and responding to it correctly. however I get the
>
> > > message "NO suitable Driver" when the applet is run from a remote
> > > browser. the Class.forName("postgresql.Driver"); does not produce an
> > > exception leading me to believe that the Driver is found but it is
> not
> > > accepting the url (same one that worked locally)?
>
> Ok, applets can be horrible little things, and sometimes it's not their
> fault. Nine times out of ten it's the sandbox (applet security), or a
> browser not handling java 1.1 or jdbc (some don't know about jdbc :-( )
>
> Your code looks ok. I placed your URL into an application here, and all I
>
> got was:
>
> Connection failed: java.net.UnknownHostException:
> godel.bioc.columbia.edu
>
> which is ok, as I wasn't connected at the time ;-)
>
> > > <Applet code="JDBCtest.class" archive=postgresql.jar width=300
> > > height=300> </Applet>
>
> As far as I can see, your problem is here.
>
> First, don't put .class in the code argument. It can break some browsers.
>
> Technically it's the class name that goes here, not the file name.
>
> The main problem is the archive argument. The browser is loading the
> postgresql.jar file, looking for the JDBCtest class. It fails, so it then
>
> looks at the directory that the html file is in. It find's JDBCtest, but
> as it's not in the jar file, some browsers implementations of the
> "Sandbox" prevents the driver to be found.
>
> There are two solutions:
>
> extract the files from postgresql.jar into your html directory
>
> or
>
> create a new jar file containing the contents of postgresql.jar
> and your applet.
>
> Remember: it's important to keep the directory structure.
>
>
> Thank you for your suggestions. I followed your directions by unzipping the
> jar file in the html directory, removed the archive attribute from the
> <applet> tag and remove the class extension from the code attribute in the
> applet tag. Now netscape produces: user authentication failed exception
> while
> internet explorer produces No suitable driver exception. Mind you, the
> connection works just fine if you do it using the appletviewer locally on
> the
> machine. I am including next a copy of the html and the java files with just
>
> the user password obsecured (you have to trust me it does work :-)).
>
> thanks indeed for any suggestions and help
>
> ************
>
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