Hi,

> After compiling I'm offcourse getting "not found" error. I spent
> some time browsing the mailing list. There are some hints, but I
> don't know whether it is relevant to JDK 1.4 SE.

First of all check what class was not found. That might be some of
the third-party libraries that you do not have in a classpath.

> One suggestion. Few examples on IBPhoenix or Sourceforge Firebird
> website would take a load of newbies (as me) from mailinglist.
> There already is an example on Interclient...

Have you checked client-java/examples?

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy