Soap web services on Tomcat to insert data to a database

Hello,

I generated soap web services using Eclipse JEE, which then I deployed ( .war) on Tomcat 7.0 on Centos 7 -  this works fine.
The aim is to insert a data received in an xml and insert it to an Oracle table.

I've added the below code to a java class file, which meant to do some insert statement ( which is valid ) , with hardcoded values, just to prove I can do it.

    public void InsertValue(String MessageId, String value){
    	try{

    	Connection con=null;
    	Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");


    	con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xxx", "xxx","xxx");
    	Statement s = con.createStatement();

    	s.execute("INSERT INTO ping_message (message_id,dstamp) VALUES ('1',To_char(SYSDATE))");
    	con.setAutoCommit(true);
    	s.close();
    	con.close();
    	}catch(Exception e){
    	System.out.println("ERROR: "+e.getMessage());
    	}
    	}
    

Unfortunately, this does not work. I wonder if this is because of the java code or Tomcat needs some db drivers in order to establish a connection the database ?

btw, my java skills are being developed as I type this :)