NoClassDefFoundError sun/io/ByteToCharConverter with InterBase JDBC driver

Question

With InterClient 7.5.1 and 8.1.5, the creation of a new JDBC connection in Java 8 fails with

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/io/ByteToCharConverter
         


        

Answer 1

The answer to the question interbase.interclient.UnlicensedComponentException with the latest interclient.jar IB (v7.5.80) seems to work for me too. It suggests to use version 1.5 of the JDBC driver for Firebird. Fortunately this driver does not rely on deprecated sun classes and works with JRE 8.