Unfortunate Java Exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

Question

I wrote an application, an it was working fine for 3 years, but! today when they try to run this application, an unexpected exception raised:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 | Exception in thread "Thread-1" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.sql.Connection.isValid(I)Z
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.MySQLConnectionPatch.SearchInCache(MySQLConnectionPatch.java:103)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.MySQLConnectionPatch.getConnection(MySQLConnectionPatch.java:79)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.SQLManager.establishSqlConnection(SQLManager.java:62)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.SQLManager.establishSqlConnection(SQLManager.java:30)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.tasks.classes.sql.executeQuery.execute(executeQuery.java:49)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.TTask.run(TTask.java:86)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.ThreadTask.run(ThreadTask.java:29)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.tasks.classes.fori.execute(fori.java:66)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.TTask.run(TTask.java:86)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.ThreadTask.run(ThreadTask.java:29)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at lib.tasks.classes.fori.execute(fori.java:66)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.TTask.run(TTask.java:86)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.ThreadTask.run(ThreadTask.java:29)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at Components.ThreadTask.run(ThreadTask.java:44)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/04/17 10:02:40 |   at LauncherService.LaunchService.run(LaunchService.java:38)

code of MySQLConnectionPatch.java/SearchInCache is

private Connection SearchInCache(String key) {

    Connection result = null;
    try{
        if (!connections.isEmpty())
            result  = connections.get(key);
    } catch (Exception ex){
    }
    if (result != null){
        boolean isValid = false;  /** THIS IS LINE 103 WHERE EXCEPTION RAISED **/
        try {
            Statement s = result.createStatement();
            if (s.execute("SHOW STATUS;")){
                isValid = true;
            }
            s.close();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            isValid = false;
        }

        if (!isValid){
            connections.remove(key);
            messageLog.stdwar("MySQL_PATCH: ONE CONNECTION EXPIRED :: force close");
            try {
                result.close();
            } catch (SQLException ex) {
                messageLog.stderr("MySQL_PATCH: CLOSING CONNECTION ERROR: "+ex.getMessage());
            }
            result = null;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

I wonder why boolean isValid = false; raise Exception java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.sql.Connection.isValid(I)Z.

Note that the only thing differs is JRE (former was 1.6, and the new is 1.7)

Answer 1

Fixed!! And guess what! A copy of old jre (1.5.08) was embeded in HP Printer driver and the address was added to the PATH environment variable!