Since Christmas, I am proud owner of an Android powered smart phone (Samsung Galaxy S Plus). The first thing I wanted to do was coding an java app to connect to Oracle database and fire lots of queries into the DBMS. As you maybe know, a JDBC driver is needed for this intention. You can download it at Oracle Software Downloads ( http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/jdbc-112010-090769.html ). And as you also know, you need to add in Eclipse IDE as a JAR file to your project. If you now test your app with a connection code like the one below, you will get a lot of exceptions: Driver d = (Driver)Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver").newInstance(); DriverManager.registerDriver((d)); Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@instance.server.com:1521:name", "user", "password"); I had not even been able to investigate what exception exactly does occur or where it does come from. It's ca
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