Hi all,

Sorry to interrupt the festivities, but I have a technical question.

I've been trying on and off to get JDBC working with IMAGE/SQL. I finally
decided that I'd just take an evening and try to make it work. However,
I'm stuck.

When my little program tries to load HP's JDBC driver, I get an exception:

>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError:
>java.lang.Null
>PointerException
>        at java.io.Writer.<init>(Writer.java:75)
>        at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.<init>(OutputStreamWriter.java:98)
>        at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.<init>(OutputStreamWriter.java:87)
>        at java.io.PrintWriter.<init>(PrintWriter.java:110)
>        at java.io.PrintWriter.<init>(PrintWriter.java:94)
>        at com.hp.jdbc.allbase.JdbcDriver.<clinit>(JdbcDriver.java:77)
>        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:124)
>        at javatest3.<init>(javatest3.java:10)
>        at javatest3.main(javatest3.java:45)

So I've obviously got the driver in the CLASSPATH because the exception
comes from the HP code. I've tried this on MacOS X (JDK 1.3.1) and on
Linux (JDK 1.2.?). I get the same thing either way.

Any clues?

Thanks,
-- Bruce


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