I think I got it. The server had a jar & my WAR has the same jar.
Probably the JNDI used the jar in the server while my application used
the class from the jar in the WAR.
As these are two different class files I was getting the class cast
exception.
-Prasanth.
Prasanth wrote:
> I am trying to get the PGConnection/Jdbc3Connection object from
> Connection class.
> The connection class returned is
> org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedConnection (as I am using JNDI in
> JBoss).
>
> When I try to get the underlying connection and cast it to
> Jdbc3Connection I am getting a class cast exception.
>
> Below is the code.
> Connection conn =
> ((WrappedConnection)DBConnection.getConnection()).getUnderlyingConnection();
> LargeObjectManager lobj =
> ((org.postgresql.jdbc3.Jdbc3Connection)conn).getLargeObjectAPI();
>
> In the above code DBConnection class provides a method to get the
> connection object from the pool.
>
> Exception:
> 09:42:33,016 WARN [RequestProcessor] Unhandled Exception thrown: class
> java.lang.ClassCastException
> 09:42:33,017 ERROR [[action]] Servlet.service() for servlet action threw
> exception
> java.lang.ClassCastException: org.postgresql.jdbc3.Jdbc3Connection
>
>
> As you can see it says that the object is of type Jdbc3Connection so why
> does it give a class cast exception then?
>
> I am using postgresql-8.1-404.jdbc3.jar driver & the database is 8.1.3.
>
> Thanks,
> -Prasanth.
>
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