Problem preparing CallableStatement with Weblogic Sybase driver

Question

I recently switched to using Weblogic's Sybase driver and immediately ran into a problem with some existing JDBC code that ran fine with Sybase's driver. Here is an excerpt of the code:
String sql = "{call my_sybase_procedure ?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?}";
Connection c = null;
CallableStatement stmt = null;
try {     
     stmt = c.prepareCall(sql);
On the prepareCall method call the following Exception is thrown:
java.sql.SQLException: [BEA][Sybase JDBC Driver][Sybase]Incorrect syntax near '{'.
As I said this code runs fine using the Sybase driver com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDriver but when I switched to weblogic.jdbc.sybase.SybaseDriver I ran into the problem. I'm using Weblogic Server 8.1 SP4 and the Sybase version is 12.5.
For now I will revert to using the Sybase driver but if anyone has any insight into this problem I would appreciate the help. Thanks.

Answer 1

slambert wrote:
I was looking at the example syntax provided here:
[url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/CallableStatement.html]http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/CallableStatement.html
It shows square brackets which I interpret as meaning that the parameters are optional. It would have been clearer to me if parentheses were included inside the square brackets.
Hi. Here's what I get from my JavaSoft doc contacts:
"For Java SE 6/JDBC 4.0 we corrected it to be:
{?= call <procedure-name>[(<arg1>,<arg2>, ...)]}
{call <procedure-name>[(<arg1>,<arg2>, ...)]}
{ call foo} is valid if there are no arguments but you must have
{call foo(?)|}
if parameters are passed.
The javadocs finally now match 13.4.4 of the spec."
Joe