Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

Hello. If you guys have a minute, I could use some help. I've been trying to establish a simple connection from my new laptop to an Oracle box on the network. I've created this simple script to test it out...

import java.sql.*;

class JDBCTest {
public static void main (String args []) {
Connection conn=null;

// Load Oracle driver

try {

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver()").newInstance();

// Connect to the local database

conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle:1521:oracle","scott", "tiger");

System.out.println("connected");


}catch(SQLException se){

System.out.println(se);

}catch(Exception e){

System.out.println(e);

}

}
}


I've donloaded the Oracle JDBC driver and put the jar into the c:\java\bin file directory...which is the same directory that I am compiling the source code above in. I use the following two command line statements to compile and run...

C:\java\bin>javac JDBCTest.java

C:\java\bin>java JDBCTest -classpath c:\java\bin\ojdbc14.jar

Compilation goes ok but I get a ClassNotFoundException when it tries to create a new instance of the Oracle Driver. I've been banging at this for a while so any kind of help is really appreciated.