I've made a simple java class which connects to the database and prints out some data. When I debug, my class stops where I try to establish a connection and throws the exception NullPointerException.
This is my code
public class test_con {
public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
OdbcConnection dbcon = new OdbcConnection();
Connection con = dbcon.getConnection();
String query = "SELECT Client Code FROM Clients";
Statement stmt =con.createStatement();
ResultSet resl = stmt.executeQuery(query);
while(resl.next()){
System.out.println(resl.getString("Client Code"));
}
}
}
and my connection code is
public Connection getConnection() {
Connection con = null;
try {
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
String connectionUrl = "jdbc:odbc:SynergistConnection";
con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl, "******", "******");
} catch (SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("SQL Exception: " + e.getMessage());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException cE) {
System.out.println("Class Not Found Exception: " + cE.toString());
}
return con;
}
Has anybody encountered any similar problem or knows how to solve this?
stacktrace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jsp.test_005flaur_jsp._jspService(test_005flaur_jsp.java:124)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:928)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:539)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:298)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)