Driver.getConnection hangs using SQLServer driver and Java 1.6.0_29

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I didn\'t know where to write something about this and decided to do it here.

After loooong time debugging my program I could find out that calling Driver.getConnect

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I am so happy that I have found this forum. I had the same problem on upgrade (I actually upgraded from 1.6.0_22 to 1.7.1, then downgraded to 1.6.0_29, when the problem has occurred.

One more thing I have noticed : if I use 1.6.0_29 jre, it fails, but if I use 1.6.0_29 jdk, it works... I spent about a day trying to figure why eclipse (which was using the jre) was failing while myEclipse (which was using the jdk) was working....

How can a bug be introduced to such a late release ? (I am in the process of making a java production version recommendation).