title: Unable to connect to oracle via Pentaho. 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver' could not be found
body: <p>Hi I've just installed Pentaho Data Integration v. 5.01 and I'm trying to connect to a database. However, I'm unable to test the connection as I get the error (pasted below).</p>
  
  <p>I have JDK 1.7 installed on the system as well, however I can't seem to locate ojdbc14.jar anywhere. </p>
  
  <p>I downloaded that and pasted it in pentaho's \lib folder but I still get the same error.</p>
  
  <p>Any solutions to this problem?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error connecting to database [test] : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Error occured while trying to connect to the database
  
  Driver class 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver' could not be found, make sure the 'Oracle' driver (jar file) is installed.
  oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
  
  
  org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Error occured while trying to connect to the database
  
  Driver class 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver' could not be found, make sure the 'Oracle' driver (jar file) is installed.
  oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
  
  
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:415)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:353)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:306)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:294)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseFactory.getConnectionTestReport(DatabaseFactory.java:84)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseMeta.testConnection(DatabaseMeta.java:2459)
      at org.pentaho.ui.database.event.DataHandler.testDatabaseConnection(DataHandler.java:541)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulDomContainer.invoke(AbstractXulDomContainer.java:329)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:139)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:123)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtButton.access$500(SwtButton.java:26)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtButton$4.widgetSelected(SwtButton.java:121)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:820)
      at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:796)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtDialog.show(SwtDialog.java:375)
      at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtDialog.show(SwtDialog.java:301)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.dialog.XulDatabaseDialog.open(XulDatabaseDialog.java:115)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.dialog.DatabaseDialog.open(DatabaseDialog.java:62)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.delegates.SpoonDBDelegate.newConnection(SpoonDBDelegate.java:493)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.delegates.SpoonDBDelegate.newConnection(SpoonDBDelegate.java:478)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.doubleClickedInTree(Spoon.java:2885)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.access$2300(Spoon.java:332)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon$27.widgetDefaultSelected(Spoon.java:5657)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source)
      at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.readAndDispatch(Spoon.java:1227)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.waitForDispose(Spoon.java:7368)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.start(Spoon.java:8673)
      at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.main(Spoon.java:625)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.commons.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:134)
  Caused by: org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: 
  Driver class 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver' could not be found, make sure the 'Oracle' driver (jar file) is installed.
  oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
  
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:474)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:399)
      ... 45 more
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
      at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:467)
      ... 46 more
  </code></pre>