jdbc connection using thin driver

i am connecting orace 10g xe with java but getting the exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver

even i have included the classpath of driver i.e ojdbc14.jar
if i have set wrong classpath plz tell me the correct way to set the classpath

From stackoverflow

• That depends on how you are running your application. Normally you can set the classpath via the env var CLASSPATH, or the command-line-switch -cp.

  Please provide more details of your environment.

  pratap : i m using windows xp and setting classpath env.var as %classpath%;I:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\jdbc\lib\ojdbc14.jar;

• note that running a JAR (double-click ou "java -jar file.jar") does not use the CLASSPATH environment variable

  How Classes are Found

  In that case - running a JAR - you must set the Class-Path attribute in the manifest file

  JAR File Specification

• I think you want to use oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver. I believe the oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver was deprecated and removed between 9i and 10g.

• If you are running your application as a Web Application in Tomcat, the ojdbc14.jar must be in, I believe, {tomcat_home}/server/lib. That or {tomcat_home}/common/lib... but I'm pretty sure it's server/lib.

• I found it in a jar file called classes12.jar in oracle app server 9.0.4.