RE: JDBC version vs JDK

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay.  I found the problem.  Many thanks, David and Fred and John, for
helping with this.  The problem is that Connection.createStatement() is not
directly called by the program.  Instead, the name of the method
"createStatement()" is actually passed as a String to a routine in a program
(called Xalan) that attempts to determine which method of Connection to
actually invoke.  In order to do this, it uses java reflection.
Specifically, it calls Class.getMethods() on the Connection object (which is
DB2Connection) in order to ennumerate the methods so that it can figure out
which one the caller actually wants to call.

It is during the getMethods() call, while ennumerating the methods, that
Xalan ends up throwing a NoClassDefFoundError.  This is because it comes
across the setSavepoint method and tries to create the Method object for it.
However, it can't find the Savepoint class so it throws up.

The OS/400 folks have decided to ship one db2_classes.jar supporting JDBC
3.0.  It shouldn't cause problems running under an older JDK unless you
actually try to "use" one of the JDBC 3.0-only methods.  It is necessary for
the Xalan folks, then, to understand what "use" means.  If this isn't fixed
in the current version of Xalan (we're using an older version), I'll open a
bugzilla entry over there to exclude from consideration any methods that
throw a NoClassDefFoundError during the getMethods() call.

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Morris
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:03 AM
> To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: JDBC version vs JDK
> 
> 
> No, just DB2SavePoint. I will forward the whole thing to you directly.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> >>> garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx 8/15/2003 10:02:59 AM >>>
> Just one more question before I ask my friend to open a PMR.  
> In your -verbose logging, do you see a load for java.sql.Savepoint?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 
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