> I'm trying unsuccessfully to use JayBird with InterBase 6.0,
> NetBeans 4.1 and Java 1.5.
>
> *** Error logging in *** GDS Exception. 335544583. SQLDA missing or
> incorrect version, or incorrect number/type of variables
> Reason: SQLDA missing or incorrect version, or incorrect number/type
> of variables
>
> I have tried this with various different databases, and they all
> failed the same way. However, most of them are several years old
> and were created by older versions of Interbase, so I created
> TestDB with IB6, put in one row of data, and tried it out with
> the results above.

Is there any reason why you do not work with Firebird? It is free and
contains a lot of fixes since IB 6.0 times (note Borland has now IB 7.5).

The error message you get sounds strange, since the wire protocol did not
change since IB 6.0 but frankly speaking I have not tested InterBase for a
long time (most likely since JayBird 1.5 release). Once I had, connected
successfully to IB 6.0, IB 6.5 and IB 7.1, but since we do not support this
platform officially, that was all I did in that direction.

BTW, you can try JayBird 1.5 JDK 1.4, it will work with JDK 1.5, only
connection pooling classes won't because of changed signatures of the JNDI
interfaces. But the driver itself should work ok - we had couple reports
here in the group.

Roman