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[Kathryn Huxtable <>]

We're also on RHE Linux. Anyway, good luck. -K


On 3/19/07 3:25 PM, "Cramton, James" 
<>
 wrote:

> Thanks for the info, Kathryn.
> 
> For independent reasons, we'll probably switch to 10g anyway, but I'm
> still running into a class not found error while looking for the
> oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver class, despite having the ojdbc14.jar set in
> the classpath. I wouldn't think this would be impacted by our platform
> choice--running on RHE Linux, but that may be a factor. We should have
> 10g installed shortly, so it may be a non-issue for us.
> 
> James
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathryn Huxtable 
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> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 4:27 PM
> To: 
> ;
>  Cramton, James; 
> 
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Oracle and JDK 1.5
> 
> I should add that we're using Oracle 9i. -K
> 
> 
> On 3/16/07 3:25 PM, "Kathryn Huxtable" 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> I haven't had any trouble using the old ojdbc14.jar with JDK1.5. I've
>> been using it for over a year. -K
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/16/07 2:48 PM, "Cramton, James" 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> I recently discovered 2 issues that impact using Oracle with Grouper
>>> in our versions; has anyone else resolved these issues?
>>> 
>>> 1. Oracle 9i does not provide a JDBC driver that is compatible with
>>> Sun's JDK 1.5. Oracle's solution is to install 10g. We will probably
>>> go this route, rather than reverting our JDK to 1.4, but I'm
>>> interested in hearing what solutions others chose.
>>> 
>>> 2. Really just a heads up that you'll find sooner or later...Oracle
>>> 9i deprecated the oracle.jdbc.driver package, in favor of the
>>> oracle.jdbc package.  The sources.xml and
>>> grouper.hibernate.properties files in the Grouper 1.1. distribution
>>> both reference the older oracle.jdbc.driver package; it's a simple
> enough change when you get there.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> James Cramton
>>> Lead Programmer/Analyst
>>> Brown University
>>> 
>>> 401 863-7324
>> 
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