SQL Developer 1.5 - The Network Adapter could not establish the connection

Question

I was using SQL Developer 1.2 until this afternoon. I saw that 1.5 was available so I decided to try it out.
Unfortunately, I cannot connect. I've tried connecting the same way I've done with 1.2 and it gives me the error:
"Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection"
No firewall changes, tns changes have been done the whole 10 minutes I was transitioning over from 1.2 to 1.5.
Any ideas how I can get 1.5 to connect?

Answer 1

Hi Echoi ,
1/Do you want us to look at the tnsnames.ora and see if we spot anything?
2/There are complications with existing ORACLE_HOME s:
Re: 1.5 not working at all for me
post from dooneill:
Hi Thomas,
SQL Developer does pick up the JDBC drivers from your local ORACLE_HOME.
To ensure your using the shipped JDBC drivers you could use the following small script.
I would appreciate if you could tell me if this works and what version of Oracle you have installed locally.
1) Close SQL Developer
2) Create a sqldeveloper.cmd file in the SQL Developer root directory
3) With the following contents
SET ORACLE_HOME=%CD%
start sqldeveloper.exe
4) Run sqldeveloper.cmd
Thanks
Dermot.
-Turloch