I am experimenting with Java and JDBC and was trying to compile, run one of Oracles own sample programs that uses their Thin Driver. I've installed the driver on my pc, however, when running it I get the following error.

D:ORANTjdbcsamplesDBMetaData>java JDBCVersion

Encountered error after DriverManager.getConnection : java.sql.SQLException: No more data to read from socket

My code is:

// Load the Oracle JDBC driver

DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());

// Connect to the database
// You must put a database name after the @ sign in the connection URL.
// You can use either the fully specified SQL*net syntax or a short cut
// syntax as : : . The example uses the short cut syntax.

Connection conn =
DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:thin:@ntxx:1521:dev",
"mo", "mo");