In my JDBC wrapper class,Iam using thin driver for database connections. I would like the class to handle situations(give some appropriate error message) even if the Database Box goes down (machine turned off) . Under this scenerio(machine turned off) when i try to get a connection using DriverManager.getConnection() method, the system hangs awaiting a response from the database server .I tried using setLoginTimeout() method before getconnection() being called but still it hangs. I tired replacing the DriverManager class with DataSource class and used setLoginTimeout() method for the DataSource , still iam unable get out of the getConnection() method when the database server is turned off. I need   More>>