help with JDBC oracle9i

[indianscorpion2]

hi everyone.
i am an amateur programmer in java.
can anyone please tell me how do i go about connecting my java application to oracle 9i database?
please be specific about what is the URL that i should use and how should i install the oracle JDBC driver.where should i install it.
if it is already available with either JDK 1.5(which i am using) or oracle 9i. where can i locate it and how should i install it. please let me know all the details. thank you.

[server_crash]

Have you read the documentation???

[Phaelax]

Here are the drivers of Oracle for java.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html

Install the jar into the "\jre\lib\ext\" directory of wherever your jsdk is installed at.

This code would print out the database names on the server:

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver").newInstance();
			String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.2.184/";
			String user = "guest";
			String password = "guestPass";
			connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
			DatabaseMetaData dbmd = connection.getMetaData();
			ResultSet result = dbmd.getCatalogs();
			databases.removeAllElements();
			while(result.next())
			{
				System.out.println(result.getString(1));
			}

[indianscorpion2]

Have you read the documentation???

where can i find the documentation u r talkin abt.please be specific

[indianscorpion2]

Here are the drivers of Oracle for java.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html

Install the jar into the "\jre\lib\ext\" directory of wherever your jsdk is installed at.

This code would print out the database names on the server:

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver").newInstance();
			String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.2.184/";
			String user = "guest";
			String password = "guestPass";
			connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
			DatabaseMetaData dbmd = connection.getMetaData();
			ResultSet result = dbmd.getCatalogs();
			databases.removeAllElements();
			while(result.next())
			{
				System.out.println(result.getString(1));
			}

thank you very much sir.i did what u have told me to.
even then i am getting an error saying
"the network adapter could not establish a connection"

"no default driver specified"

"wrong data source name"

what could be the problem?

[Phaelax]

Well you'll need to make changes to the code for it to work for you. Such as the username and password and the server address. You may even have to change the driver name.

I believe Server Crash was referring to the java api documentation.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/DriverManager.html

[jwenting]

and put in the correct jdbc URI.
The example used a mySQL database as an example, and of course a different database name and machine.

See the documentation (which you should have, it's available from Oracle and I think comes with the driver) for the details.