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java.lang.NullPointerException when opening a connection to database

843854Feb 26 2003 — edited Feb 26 2003
Hi,
I am using JBuilder8.0(which used jdk 1.4.1) and trying to open a connection to SQL Server database.

The code in the program:
Connection con1 = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:PerfDB","sa","");

Complile is ok. When I execute the program, it generates NullPointerException.

java.lang.NullPointerException

at sun.io.Converters.getConverterClass(Converters.java:96)

at sun.io.Converters.newConverter(Converters.java:156)

at sun.io.CharToByteConverter.getConverter(CharToByteConverter.java:64)

at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcObject.CharsToBytes(JdbcOdbcObject.java:333)

at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLDriverConnect(JdbcOdbc.java:3018)

at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcConnection.initialize(JdbcOdbcConnection.java:323)

at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.connect(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:174)

at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:512)

at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:171)

at testAtlys.CreateCustomer1.updateInputXML(CreateCustomer1.java:62)

at testAtlys.Test.main(Test.java:55)

Exception in thread "main"

Please provide me the solution.

Thanks
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