changing class path at run time

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From: George
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:18

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I want to load JDBC drivers on demand.  The user tells me the driver class name and where the jar files are located and my app loads the driver.  Or so I would like.  The following code does not work:

try {
  System.setProperty("java.class.path", path + ";"    + "C:\\MyDrivers\\ojdbc14.jar" );
     Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }


The code works if I include the jar file on the java command line invocation.  What am I doing wrong?

TIA
George

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