Further reflection -right after posting my initial question- led to one of those "I could'a had a V-8" moments, and the probable answer to my own question, which is - that it would most likely be hard for the database to return an exception when it is not even running. So here are my REAL questions:
1) Is it rare to trap for the condition of database stopped? None of the books I have used for connection examples even mentioned it. 2) If I do want to trap for this, would the way to go be to test whether connecion object null after my .makeConnection() call, and if it is, throw my own exception? Thanks for input. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
