Driver.getConnection hangs using SQLServer driver and Java 1.6.0_29

Question

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

Answer 1

Upgrading to 1.6.0_30 also worked for me. Microsoft has released a statement announcing the fix in 2012 Q1. It looks like it's a Java vulnerability (BEAST).