Trying to pass arguments into a method call and failing

Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to programming, and newer to Java. I'm currently working on a project that pulls fields from a database based on a name, and I'm having some trouble getting the connection string set up.
Statically defined, the database connects and the program logic that follows works just fine. The problem is that to future-proof this application, I need to pass the database URL, port, db instance, username, and password into the program as arguments from the batch file that will then be scheduled to run the program on a job-by-job basis.
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.1 (Build 200805300101)
Java: 1.6.0_06; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 10.0-b22
System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb)
Userdir: C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxxxxxxx.SPROPANE\.netbeans\6.1
Here's my current working source (with the network addresses obfuscated):
package processsqrjob;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Date;
public class Main {
     * @param args jobname, jobparameters, HYPusername, HYPpassword, HYPservername, HYPport, oracleDBURL, oracleport (default 1512), SID (dbb?), oracleusername, oraclepass
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    public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException
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        Date date = new Date(); //get the system date for output to both the error log and the DB's lastrun field
        System.out.println(date); //print the date out to the console
        System.out.println(args[0]); //print the job name to the console
        String sourcefolder=""; //we're going to load the job source folder into this variable based on the job's name
        String destfolder="";//same with this variable, except it's going to get the destination folder
        try {
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM myschema.jobs WHERE NAME =\'"+args[0]+"\'");
            while ( rs.next() ) {
                sourcefolder = rs.getString("sourcefolder");
                destfolder = rs.getString("destfolder");
            stmt.executeQuery("UPDATE myschema.jobs SET lastrun ='"+date+"' WHERE name ='"+args[0]+"'");//put this after hyp code
//            System.out.println(sourcefolder);
//            System.out.println(destfolder);
//            System.out.println(description);
            stmt.close(); //close up the socket to prevent leaks
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            System.err.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
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}That works, and it connects to the database and everything. But when I pass the variables in from the project properties run settings, I get the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: invalid arguments in call
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:111)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:145)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:207)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:235)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.<init>(PhysicalConnection.java:440)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.<init>(T4CConnection.java:164)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CDriverExtension.getConnection(T4CDriverExtension.java:34)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:752)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:207)
        at processsqrjob.Main.main(Main.java:42)
Java Result: 1That is with Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracleserver.local.intranet.com:1521:dbname", "username", "pass"); changed to Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@"+args[6]+":"+args[7]+":"+args[8]+"\", \""+args[9]+"\", \""+args[10]+"\"");{code}, with args 6 7 8 and 9 set to url, port, dbinstance, username, and password respectively.
Perhaps it's the way I'm escaping the quotation marks, but I put that same line inside a System.out.println() and it output it exactly as I had typed it in statically before, so I don't know what it could be.
I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance for your time.

I think you're mixing up SQL and Java. The Java method expects the user name and password as separate parameters, not encoded in one String. So you shouldn't be concatenating args[9] and args[10] at all, they should remain as separate parameters.
The call should be:DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@" + args[6] + ":"+ args[7] + ":" + args[8], args[9], args[10]);
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