Till Toenges wrote:
> Oliver Jowett wrote:
>>> A network timeout or anything worse is handled in an entirely
>>> different part of the code. That is not the responsibility of the
>>> driver, and doesn't event need to be part of the database related
>>> code at all.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean here - if the connection to the DB fails,
>> the driver will certainly handle that and tell you about it via a
>> SQLException!
>
> Sorry. Of course the driver must handle failed connections. I meant the
> code in my application, which handles the two cases (timeout but usable
> connection vs broken connection for whatever reason) differently.
You can check the SQLState of any exception thrown to tell the
difference, right?
-O