JDBC connection troubles

[Shadab Khan]

Hi
iam trying to oracle 8i through a simple JDBC program.iam able to connect to the db using the thindriver but when i try to connect it through OCI iam getting the following exception

  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no ocijdbc8 in java.library.path
        at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
        at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at java.lang.Error.<init>(Error.java:50)
        at java.lang.LinkageError.<init>(LinkageError.java:43)
        at java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError.<init>(UnsatisfiedLinkError.java:42)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Compiled Code)
        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:470)
        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:778)
        at oracle.jdbc.oci8.OCIDBAccess.logon(OCIDBAccess.java:233)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:269)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(Compiled Code)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:266)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Compiled Code)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:137)
        at JdbcTest.main(Compiled Code)