I'm attempting to export a jar file containing the ojdbc14.jar, to allow execution outside of my machine. I can do so successfully with the current export of my jar, but only on my computer, when others try it fails with the error: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
when it attempts to call Class.forName
I have seen many similar questions on SO concerning this, but none of the questions seem to have the exact problem, and the solutions aren't working either.
Class:
InputStream inputStream = JdbcConnection.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("properties/jdbc.properties");
try {
PROPERTIES.load(inputStream); //Load the jdbc properties
//System.out.println(properties.getProperty("jdbc.driverClassName")); <-- this prints out the correct output`
Class.forName(PROPERTIES.getProperty("jdbc.driverClassName")).newInstance(); //Load the oracle driver
Manifest: (my ojdbc14.jar is located in lib, but the jar will only work on my local machine if just "ojdbc14.jar" is included, the other jars don't have an issue with the path provided, not sure if that is important)
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: JdbcConnection
Class-Path: lib/ojdbc14.jar ojdbc14.jar extrsrcs/kxml2-2.3.0.jar extrsrcs/xstream-1.4.2.jar src/properties/jdbc.properties
UPDATE:
This question better explains how I resolved my issue, as it was related to Jar-within-Jars, executable jars, and etc.