On 2002.12.28 14:49:43 -0500 Jonathan Gossage wrote:

> I have encountered a problem trying to use the Jaybird RC2 driver with
> Firebird 1.0.2 when debugging an application using the Eclipse IDE
> version
> 2.1 M3 and the Sun JVM 1.4.1_01, all running on Windows XP with service
> pack
> 1.
>
> What happened is that when I executed the following Java statement
> Class.forName("org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver");
>
> I got a NoClassDefFoundError thrown. After verifying that the
> firebirdsql.jar file was on the classpath my first suspicion was that
> there
> might be a class file incompatibility if the binary version of the driver
> had been compiled under another Java compiler. I then downloaded the
> source
> for the driver from CVS and rebuilt the driver using the Sun 1.4.1_01
> compiler.
>
> Using the jars produced from this build corrected the problem. However,
> this
> is really just a stopgap. We are looking at using Firebird as our primary
> open source database, but we need binaries that will runon the common
> JVM's
> including Sun 1.3 and 1.4 and IBM 1.3. Do you think that this will be
> possible in the short term? We are hoping to have an alpha release of our
> project before the end of January.
>

What is the missing class?

thanks
david jencks

> Regards
>
> Jonathan Gossage
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