title: Issue in connecting Java thin driver in oracle 11G r2
body: <pre><code>public static  Connection getConnection()throws SQLException,ClassNotFoundException
         { String username="scott";
              String password="tiger";
  
              String url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521";
          Connection connection = null;
          System.out.println("before class");
                     Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");
                     System.out.println("Before connection");
                  connection=DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);
             System.out.println("CONNECTED");
          return connection;
         }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Connection Name: orcl
  UserName:scott
  Password:tiger
  connection details:scott@</p>
  
  <p>I am using Oracle g11 Release 2 and I already included the ojdbc.jar in my build path. When trying to establish the connection, I get the following stack trace error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: Invalid connection string format,
    a valid format is: "host:port:sid"    at
    oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)  at
    oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179)  at
    oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:333)  at
    oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.(OracleConnection.java:404)
      at
    oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(OracleDriver.java:468)
      at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:314)   at
    java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)  at
    java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)  at
    com.adobe.util.DBConnection$DBUtil.getConnection(DBConnection.java:23)
      at
    com.adobe.daoimpl.DBimplementation.registration(DBimplementation.java:21)
      at com.adobe.service.AdobeService.registration(AdobeService.java:13)
      at webservice.Web.service(Web.java:16)  at
    sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)   at
    sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)   at
    sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)   at
    java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)   at
    org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.java:397)
      at
    org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:186)
      at
    org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:323)
      at
    org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
      at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)     at
    org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)   at
    org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.SOAPService.invoke(SOAPService.java:454)
      at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:281)    at
    org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:699)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)     at
    org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)     at
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>