Re: changing class path at run time

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From: George
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:12

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"George" <me@here.com> wrote:
>
>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
>
>Never mind.  I just found out about URLClassLoader.

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