> I have the following code that doesn't seem to be starting Firebird
> correctly. When I run it I get an exception with the message "Unable
> to complete network request to host "localhost"". If I start
> Firebird manually it works fine. Can anyone give me any insight into
> my problem.

FBManager.start() does not start the database server, but a JMX
service inside a JMX container (like JBoss). That's two completely
unrelated things. You have to start Firebird either manually or as a
service (Windows) or daemon/inetd service (*nix).

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy