Grails App unable to connect to SQL Server (Malformed Reply from SOCKS Server) - sql-server

Question

I'm a newbie learning Grails by developing a small application that retrieves codes from a database. The details are -
- Apple Mac OS X (i.e. Unix).
- Grails 1.3.5 using NetBeans 6.9.1.
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Database, located on a different server.
- JTDS Driver
Here is the DataSource.groovy -
dataSource {
pooled = false
driverClassName = "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
dialect="org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect"
}
hibernate {
cache.use_second_level_cache = true
cache.use_query_cache = true
cache.provider_class = 'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheProvider'
}
// environment specific settings
environments {
development {
dataSource {
dbCreate = "update" // one of 'create', 'create-drop','update'
url = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hbtsqldev.domain.omitted.com.au:1433;databasename=TempDatabase;useCursorFetch=true;user=username;password=omitted"
}
}
test {
dataSource {
dbCreate = "update"
url = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hbtsqldev.domain.omitted.com.au:1433;databasename=TempDatabase;useCursorFetch=true;user=username;password=omitted"
}
}
production {
dataSource {
dbCreate = "update"
url = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hbtsqldev.domain.omitted.com.au:1433;databasename=TempDatabase;useCursorFetch=true;user=username;password=omitted"
}
}
}
When I run the Grails app, I receive the following (very long) error messages -
2010-11-11 10:58:00,709 [main] ERROR
context.GrailsContextLoader - Error
executing bootstraps: Error creating
bean with name 'messageSource':
Initialization of bean failed; nested
exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'transactionManager': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'sessionFactory'
while setting bean property
'sessionFactory'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector'
while setting bean property
'lobHandler'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of
init method failed; nested exception
is
org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException:
Error while extracting
DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'messageSource': Initialization of
bean failed; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'transactionManager': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'sessionFactory'
while setting bean property
'sessionFactory'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector'
while setting bean property
'lobHandler'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of
init method failed; nested exception
is
org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException:
Error while extracting
DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server at
org.grails.tomcat.TomcatServer.start(TomcatServer.groovy:212)
at
grails.web.container.EmbeddableServer$start.call(Unknown
Source) at
_GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5_closure12.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:158)
at
_GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5_closure12.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy)
at
_GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.doCall(_GrailsSettings_groovy:280)
at
_GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.call(_GrailsSettings_groovy)
at
_GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:149)
at
_GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5.call(_GrailsRun_groovy)
at
_GrailsRun_groovy.runInline(_GrailsRun_groovy:116)
at
_GrailsRun_groovy.this$4$runInline(_GrailsRun_groovy)
at
_GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure1.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:59) at
RunApp$_run_closure1.doCall(RunApp.groovy:33) at
gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure5.doCall(Gant.groovy:381)
at
gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy:415)
at
gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy) at
gant.Gant.withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy:427)
at
gant.Gant.this$2$withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy)
at
gant.Gant$this$2$withBuildListeners.callCurrent(Unknown
Source) at
gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:415)
at
gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy)
at
gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy)
at
gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:590)
at
gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:589)
Caused by:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'transactionManager': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'sessionFactory'
while setting bean property
'sessionFactory'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector'
while setting bean property
'lobHandler'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of
init method failed; nested exception
is
org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException:
Error while extracting
DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve
reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector'
while setting bean property
'lobHandler'; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of
init method failed; nested exception
is
org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException:
Error while extracting
DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of
init method failed; nested exception
is
org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException:
Error while extracting
DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by:
org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException:
Error while extracting
DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by:
java.sql.SQLException: Network error
IOException: Malformed reply from
SOCKS server at
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.(ConnectionJDBC2.java:410)
at
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC3.(ConnectionJDBC3.java:50)
at
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver.connect(Driver.java:184)
at
java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at
java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:154)
at $Proxy8.getMetaData(Unknown
Source) ... 23 more Caused by:
java.net.SocketException: Malformed
reply from SOCKS server at
java.net.SocksSocketImpl.readSocksReply(SocksSocketImpl.java:147)
at
java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:495)
at
java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
at
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SharedSocket.createSocketForJDBC3(SharedSocket.java:307)
at
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SharedSocket.(SharedSocket.java:257)
at
net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.(ConnectionJDBC2.java:311)
... 28 more
Can anyone see where the problem might be?
If you need me to provide any further info, please let me know.

Answer 1

Are you able to ping the database server from where you are running your tomcat? I am using Grails 1.3.5 with SQL Server 2005 with Microsoft JDBC 4.0 Driver. Works fine for me.
dataSource.driverClassName = com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
dataSource.url = jdbc:sqlserver://dbserver:1433;databaseName=testDB