SQLException - Connection reset error - sql-server-2008

Question

I am trying to establish a jdbc connection with SQL Server 2008 R2, using the SQLJDBC4 jar file and JDK 1.6. I am using Netbeans IDE and have added the SQLJDBC4 jar and added the path to the database in the 'databases' section in the services. The code is as below:
package connect2;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
public class Connect2 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
Connection conn;
conn = null;
System.out.println("Done....");
try
{
Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");
conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:sqlserver://172.17.39.13\\CRM:1433;databaseName=crm_xchanging","crm_xchanging","Welcome001");
System.out.println ("Database connection established");
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
{
System.out.println (e);
}
catch (SQLException ex)
{
System.out.println(" error");
}
finally
{
if (conn != null)
{
try{
Statement st = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet res = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM usertable");
System.out.println("User Name: " );
while (res.next()) {
String employeeName = res.getString("user_name");
System.out.println(employeeName);
}
conn.close();
}
catch(SQLException ex){
System.err.println("SQLException information");
while(ex!=null) {
System.err.println ("Error msg: " + ex.getMessage());
System.err.println ("SQLSTATE: " + ex.getSQLState());
System.err.println ("Error code: " + ex.getErrorCode());
ex = ex.getNextException();
// For drivers that support chained exceptions
}}
}
}
}
}
This is the output I'm getting:
run:
Done....
Database connection established
SQLException information
Error msg: Connection reset
SQLSTATE: 08S01
Error code: 0
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 second)
I don't think there is any mistake in the code or the JDK. I have also tried to set the max no. of active connections for SQL Server as 0 (infinite). How do I solve this problem?

Answer 1

There is a known bug introduced in Java 6u29 that causes SSL failure specifically with SQL Server 2008 R2. An Atlassian Fisheye troubleshooting page suggests a fix was incomplete.
Oracle delivered a fix in 6u30, although for at least one affected
client not even Java 1.7 worked.
On my development team we have found this bug to impact Java 8 at as well. One of the recommendation in the Fisheye article is to disable CBC protection using a JVM flag and that has also worked for me for SSL Java 8 SSL with a SQL Server 2008 R2 connection.
-Djsse.enableCBCProtection=false
The other suggestion is to revert to Java 1.6.0_24.