Re: JDBC Connection Issue

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:42:34 -0500
Message-ID:
<hn843r$t2a$1@news.albasani.net>
Joel Ross wrote:

JDBC Driver: mysql-connector-java-2.0.14-bin.jar
JAVA: j2sdk1.4.2_10


markspace wrote:

These two are very old. Can you upgrade? Java in on version 6 now, 4
is no longer supported, and 5 is past EOL for free (unpaid) customers.
A 2.0 Connector appears to be ancient. 5 is the current version, 3 is
the earliest still available on MySQL's website.


jross wrote:

Unfortunately these two version are what we are using I have tried
mysql-connector 3 and I still have the same issues. We are looking into
updating java in the future but at the moment it's too much work because
of all the new changes.


They aren't that new. Nearly six years in dog years is over four decades in
human years. And there aren't that many changes: get rid of "enum" in your
code and hope you aren't using the commons-lang version of that, and voil??.

That said, I also was just on a project that still uses 1.4. To their credit,
they're finally now upgrading (gradually) to the (also now obsolescent) Java 5.

The actual conversion took about a week for roughly a million lines of code.
Upgrading from Rational Application Developer 6 to version 7 took them another
two months.

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Lew

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