Hello,

Hibernate version: 2.1.8

Name and version of the database you are using:Oracle 9i

I am trying to set up hibernate 2.1.8 to run with oracle 9i - i am following the steps mentioned in Getting Started. As per those guidelines, I copied the jdbc driver jar file into the lib directory (the jar file i copied is ojdbc.jar) and then I uncommented the settings mentioned in the /etc/hibernate.properties for oracle database. After that I ran the command from command prompt in the hibernate directory. An IO Exception is being raised saying that database could not be connected to.

What I understood from the documentation is this:
"the setting mentioned in the properties file cause the creation of a new database schema"

Kindly tell me where I am going wrong and what am I understanding wrong here.

--Thanks,
Manju

Did you change the hibernate.connection.url property to match your Oracle hostname/port/SID?

thanks jandries - the user was also not created with sufficient privileges.