Sheepishly Paul enters Google Groups.... For the greater good of Linux/MySQL/Tomcat users I thought that I should perhaps post the solution to my problem:
As it turns out, I had another older MySQL driver in my classpath. I figured this out by decompling the driver that I thought I was using and finding that the method referenced in the stacktrace did not exist. The reason for the confusion was because I originally had a permissions problem within MySQL and one of the things I did was to download the latest driver. I fiddled with other things until my permissions problems disappeared. The problem referenced in this thread then appeared and I never realised that the old driver was still on my classpath. Anyway Mike and Brian, thanks for you help - I hope this post will help some chop like me in the future. Regards Paul
