Setting Network Timeout for JDBC connection

Question

I\'m trying to set a network time-out my Oracle database Connection in Java. However, I\'m getting an error. Below is sample code and it\'s respective exception.

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Answer 1

setNetworkTimeout() was introduced in JDBC 4.1 and was not present in JDBC 4.0.

You will want ojdbc7 since JDBC 4.1 only came in with Java 7 if you want to use setNetworkTimeout() method.

The underlying issue is that adding methods to interfaces in later specifications can cause older implementations of those interfaces to break with errors. One of the new features of the upcoming Java 8, default methods, will hopefully make this slightly less of a problem.

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Apparently there is also a JDBC driver property for Oracle that can modify socket timeouts.

You can also try using this Oracle JDBC property to set the socket timeout if you are using the thin driver:

Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("user", "dbuser");
props.setProperty("password", "dbpassword");
props.setProperty(OracleConnection.CONNECTION_PROPERTY_THIN_NET_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, "2000");

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("", props);