Ultrasearch error : WKG17005: connection failure: User credentials doesn't

Question

Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help with the following issue, i'd be eternally grateful if they could.
I'm the DBA on a site where our java developers have suddenly noticed that the ultrasearch element of a client web site no longer works.
The length of time that the ultrasearch functionality has been broken is unknown so i can't be certain when it occurred.
However the database was patched from 10.1.0.4.0 to 10.1.0.5.0 in sep 2007 so i'm wondering if its possible that the patching broke the ultrasearch functionality somehow.
Could anyone advise if they have ever encountered anything similiar after an upgrade from 10.1.0.4.0 to 10.1.0.5.0.
Also could the patching upgrade break or overwrite any ultrasearch configuration that i now need to recheck?
The specific error being returned when the developers try to use ultrasearch is the following one
WKG17005: connection failure: User credentials doesn't match the existing ones
Now i'm new to the ultrasearch technology area but i've looked at the ultrasearch.properties file in the directory $ORACLE_HOME/ultrasearch/webapp/config/
and another copy of the file deployed in a directory c:\webapps\app\WEB-INF\classes and the connection entries are as expected and as follows
ultrasearch.connection.driver=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
ultrasearch.connection.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@dev2:1521:mstest
ultrasearch.instance=msus
ultrasearch.user=wksys
ultrasearch.password=wksys
i have a couple of queries that i hope someone can answer
1) can you see any obvious issues or mistakes in the ultrasearch.properties file listed above?
2) the error message states "User credentials doesn't match the existing ones". This would imply that the user credentials supplied (wksys/wksys) don't match
a set of expected credentials held or cached somewhere? Any idea where this would be or how i could clear any cached credentials?
The code which tries to establish the connection with ultrasearch is as follows
Configuration props = new PropertiesConfiguration (PROPERTIES_FILE);
QueryInstance qi = new QueryInstance();
qi.setConnectionString("jdbc:oracle:thin:@server:1521:instance");
qi.setUser("user");
qi.setPassword("password ");
qi.setInstanceName("instance");
where PROPERTIES_FILE is the ultrasearch.properties file referenced above.
If i need to supply any other information around this query please advise.
Regards,
George Johnston

Answer 1

Thanks for your response but command line authentication is the 1st thing i tried.
also the account is not locked or expired.
Regards,
George Johnston