Re: Firebird JDBC issue

Am Sonntag, den 28.05.2006, 11:01 -0400 schrieb Eron Lloyd:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get OOo working with the Firebird RDBMS, using Firebird's JDBC 
> driver Jaybird. I've added all the JAR files to the classpath properly and 
> tested the class to see if it works (it does). However, once I add the DB URL 
> firebirdsql:127.0.0.1/3050:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb and try to 
> test the connection, I get a JDBC UnknownHostException, whether I use 
> "localhost" or the IP. Just to be sure, I tried the same with MySQL and JDBC 
> and initially got the same error. After switching to the IP however, I can 
> now access the DB.
> 
> I don't think it is a network issue, as I can access Firebird using the same 
> URL as above with the isql shell utility. Is this a deeper problem with Java 
> or the JDBC? I find it odd that an IP works for MySQL but not Firebird, 
> especially.

Try like this:

firebirdsql://localhost/home/marc/testme.gdb

As far as the driver class is named correctly
(org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver) you should be done by adding two slashes
befor the servers name.

HTH,
Marc