Re: JDBC driver works in ccommand line, not in Tomcat5

Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> Turns out this is pretty easy to do, I'm just not sure what the best text
> to report to the user is, so far I have:

>      Your security policy has prevented the connection from being
>      attempted.  You must grant the connect java.net.SocketPermission
>      to the database server host and port that you wish to connect to.

Can you really tell for sure that it's security policy and not something
else?  A message as specific as this would be downright
counterproductive if it's wrong.

FWIW, the backend's style guide would suggest dividing that into an
ERROR and a HINT, particularly if the HINT could be mistaken.

            regards, tom lane