How to fix: No suitable driver found for sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=XX

Question

I have huge Java project that fails to run because of this database error

APPLICATION STARTUP FAILURE No suitable driver found for sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=XX java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=XX at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:602) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185) at artemispm.serverutil.ConnectionPool.newConnection(ConnectionPool.java:577) at artemispm.serverutil.ConnectionPool.manageConnections(ConnectionPool.java:470) at artemispm.serverutil.ConnectionPool.getPooledConnection(ConnectionPool.java:421) at artemispm.serverutil.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:355) at artemispm.serverutil.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:329) at artemispm.serverutil.AppMgr.getConnection(AppMgr.java:492) at artemispm.trjdbc.TRJConnection.(TRJConnection.java:46) at artemispm.trdo.TRBaseSql.getConnection(TRBaseSql.java:2903) at artemispm.service.TRDebugWriter.transmit(TRDebugWriter.java:105) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.clockedTransmit(DataBroker.java:4969) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.callService(DataBroker.java:3125) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.callService(DataBroker.java:3103) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.initTriton(DataBroker.java:325) at artemispm.trapplets.TRApplet.init(TRApplet.java:296) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:425) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Build Version:?VERSION? productpm.trdo.TRSeriousException: No suitable driver found for sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=XX at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.checkError(DataBroker.java:659) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.callService(DataBroker.java:3129) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.callService(DataBroker.java:3103) at artemispm.trapplets.DataBroker.initTriton(DataBroker.java:325) at artemispm.trapplets.TRApplet.init(TRApplet.java:296) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:425) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

I tried to placing sqljdbc.jar sqljdbc4.jar in %catalina_home&\lib folder but that did not help

I am not familiar with Java but would appreciate any help on this.

EDIT: My connections string is defined in customer.properties file like this: APP.url= sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=XX

Now I changed it to: APP.url= jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=XX

and I have new error:

APPLICATION STARTUP FAILURE Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 is not supported by this driver. Use the sqljdbc4.jar class library, which provides support for JDBC 4.0.

How do I switch to new driver ?

Answer 1

Your URL should be jdbc:sqlserver://server:port;DatabaseName=dbname.

Are you sure that you typed it correctly?