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

sun.io.ByteToCharConvertor was deprecated in java 7. and it seems they remove it in java 8.