Not able to connect to remote MySQL database using Connector/J

Question

I have an application that uses a connection pool for database access.
It is initialized with this context.xml entry:
The db server is running on port 3307.
     <Resource name="jdbc/DB" auth="Container"
                    type="javax.sql.DataSource" username="un" password="pw"
                    removeAbandoned="true" removeAbandonedTimeout="60" logAbandoned="true"
                    driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
                    url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3307/myDB"
                    maxActive="8" maxIdle="4"/>Now after starting the context, I can see I have a connection to my database using the MySQL Administrator. So I know I am connecting.
The problem is, when I try to query any table in the db, I get this message:
java.sql.SQLException
: Table myDB.TABLE_NAME' doesn't exist
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(
MysqlIO.java:2921) ...
I know it does in fact exist because I am looking at it. And the code I am using works perfectly fine as long as it is running on a local db server.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I know it does in fact exist because I am looking at
it. And the code I am using works perfectly fine as
long as it is running on a local db server.
Any ideas?Yes two.
I am bit unclear about the last thing you said... you are testing with two different servers or two different clients?
Anyway here are the possibilities off the top of my head.
1) Some sort of security issue. Surrounding who and from where users can connect to the database in question.
2) Case sensitivity problem. On Windows MYSQl makes all it's table names lower case only. Then it onlu supports the correct case to access them.
For example
CREATE TABLE TestMe
Can then only be accessed with
SELECT * FROM testme
Not TestMe.
This appears to vary with version but i have seen this issue before.