Hi I am facing a frustrating problem here. I am having a login screen. When users enter username and pwd they are validated against a database (mysql). Everything is working perfectly. but some times users get a null pointer exception when they are logging in. I suspect that the connection object being returned is null sometimes. but why is it occuring only some times ? other times eeverything is working fine. I am using a class to connect to the db. Please read the code for the class belwo
******************************************* import java.sql.*; public class DBConnector{ public Connection conn; public Connection connect() throws java.sql.SQLException{ try{ Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"); conn=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://192.168.0.4/WEBDB","test","tes t"); }catch(Exception e){ System.out.println(e.toString()); }finally{ return conn; } } } ***************************************** In my login validation jsp page I use this line of code to connect to the db DBConnector dbc=new DBConnector(); conn=dbc.connect(); SQL="select UserCode from t_users where Password=password(?)"; pstmt=conn.prepareStatement(SQL); approximatley 200 users access my web application. Can you please explain whats wrong in my approach? Its kinda critical to me. Any help wud be invaluable Thanx in advance Deepak =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com