diff --git a/etc/writedb_entry b/etc/writedb_entry
index 12e7f55bd481f34ce6093299e205d19c2daf9f82..6fbfcb6cb4055a4dee589bd19b21543277babe45 100755
--- a/etc/writedb_entry
+++ b/etc/writedb_entry
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ done
 ARTEMIS_HOME=`dirname "$PRG"`/..
 
 CLASSPATH="$ARTEMIS_HOME:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/biojava.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/jemAlign.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/macos.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc3.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/chado-14-interface.jar:$CLASSPATH"
-CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar"
+CLASSPATH="$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar:$CLASSPATH"
 
 # iBatis jars
 CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/ibatis-2.3.4.726.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/log4j-1.2.14.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/ibatis/cglib-nodep-2.2.jar:$ARTEMIS_HOME/lib/retrotranslator-runtime-1.1.0.jar"