Eclipse relative class path help

[LWA]

Guys and Gals,
I'm currently developing an eclipse java project which has to connect to an oracle database. The JDBC driver is attached to the project as a specific location (e.g. C:\project\code\JDBC.zip).

This works fine, however after exporting the project to a .jar file and moving it to a web server the program will not work (because obviously it does not know C:\project\code\JDBC.zip).

Is there any way of specifying that the JDBC driver is stored in a location relative to the other java files? (For example, "\code\JDBC.zip"). I have tried modifying the .classpath file to no avail.

Please help!

Thank you in advance

[LWA]

Dammit I have put this in the wrong forum, mods can you please move this to the software development forum please? Thanks

[DsW]

Guys and Gals,
I'm currently developing an eclipse java project which has to connect to an oracle database. The JDBC driver is attached to the project as a specific location (e.g. C:\project\code\JDBC.zip).

This works fine, however after exporting the project to a .jar file and moving it to a web server the program will not work (because obviously it does not know C:\project\code\JDBC.zip).

Is there any way of specifying that the JDBC driver is stored in a location relative to the other java files? (For example, "\code\JDBC.zip"). I have tried modifying the .classpath file to no avail.

Please help!

Thank you in advance

The .classpath file is only of relevance within the Eclipse environment.

Once you've exported the project as a JAR it's upto you to specify any required resources in the classpath via the command line or in the web application configuration.

e.g. java -jar yourjar -classpath=.;.\code\JDBC.zip

cheers,
dave

[LWA]

Dave, thanks for the reply that is very helpful. Just need to setting the class path when I run the java file.

Thanks again, Leon