Oracle 8 thin driver problem

From: Rye1 <rye1_at_netunlimited.net>
Date: 1998/12/02
Message-ID: <3664D1E5.F85EF97E@netunlimited.net>#1/1

Has anyone had any luck with the Oracle 8 thin driver with JDK 1.1.7 and Swing 1.1beta3 ? When I try it, I get this spectacular stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException

 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTCOutBuffer.add(TTCOutBuffer.java:129)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIMsg.marshalUB1(TTIMsg.java:372)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIpro.marshal(TTIpro.java:234)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIpro.<init>(TTIpro.java:96)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.connect(TTC7Protocol.java:1004)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.logon(TTC7Protocol.java:162)

 at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:103)  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:148)  at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Compiled Code)  at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:126)

This is the 8.0.4.0.6 version of the driver code trying to connect toa version 7 database. 8.0.4.0.5 is no better:

java.lang.NullPointerException

 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTCOutBuffer.add(TTCOutBuffer.java:129)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIMsg.marshalUB1(TTIMsg.java:372)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIpro.marshal(TTIpro.java:234)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIpro.<init>(TTIpro.java:96)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.connect(TTC7Protocol.java:1004)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.logon(TTC7Protocol.java:162)

 at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:103)  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:148)  at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Compiled Code)  at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:126) Received on Wed Dec 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CST