GetString issue

Question

Hi,
We are experiencing some strange behaviour with the JDBC getString method on Jdeveloper 10g (I'll also post in the Jdeveloper forum).
getString is returning the hex representation of the string when it is executing in the OC4J container, but returns the correct data when it executes in the internal Jdeveloper java machine ie when we run the class without startinbg the Web App in the oc4j container.
Anyone experienced this?
Thanks,
Tom

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply.
I am still encountering the issue after checking the classpath both in the IDE debugger and the oc4j container via a java call: System.getProperty("java.class.path").
This returns a classpath that contains:
C:\Jdev905\j2ee\home\../../jdbc/lib/nls_charset12.jar;
What is interesting however is that the JDBC doc states:
The Thin driver obtains language and territory settings (NLS_LANGUAGE and NLS_TERRITORY) from the Java locale in the JVM user.language property.
When I probe the properties:
Properties properties = System.getProperties();
I see a user.language property (set to "en") in the IDE BUT NOT in the oc4j container.
Is this the cause of the conversion to (or lack of conversion from) hex in the OC4J container?
By the way my JDBC version is 9.0.1.4.0 using:
DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData();
System.out.println("JDBC driver version is " + meta.getDriverVersion());
.. and I'm running on Windows 2000.
Any help is appreciated!
Tom