Driver.getConnection hangs using SQLServer driver and Java 1.6.0_29

Question

I didn\'t know where to write something about this and decided to do it here.

After loooong time debugging my program I could find out that calling Driver.getConnect

Answer 1

See the solution here https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9954398&tstart=0 http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqldataaccess/thread/97dce8fd-6487-4bca-80b0-492167db3e0d

"Apparently, this is related to SSL use and can be mitigated by replacing the jsse.jar in the jre/lib with that from an earlier version, for instance out of the 1.6.0_27 release. I've been confused by 1.6.0_29 working with MS JDBC and older SQL Server '05 setups which are not doing secure connections. All the newer servers (SQL Server '08 R2) fail as they require SSL and Java 1.6.0_29 does not work using jTDS or MS JDBC in this case."

Answer 2

I am so happy that I have found this forum. I had the same problem on upgrade (I actually upgraded from 1.6.0_22 to 1.7.1, then downgraded to 1.6.0_29, when the problem has occurred.

One more thing I have noticed : if I use 1.6.0_29 jre, it fails, but if I use 1.6.0_29 jdk, it works... I spent about a day trying to figure why eclipse (which was using the jre) was failing while myEclipse (which was using the jdk) was working....

How can a bug be introduced to such a late release ? (I am in the process of making a java production version recommendation).

Answer 3

I have the same hang problem, and only with java 1.6.0_29. I noticed that if I upgrade to 7.1 the problem goes away