Hi Developers are facing an issue where java/jdbc installation is probably causing troubles Oracle supported is looking into jdbc issues, I had to install new jdbc 1.4 version I was on 1.2 JDBC which comes together with 9.2.0.4 database version. JDBC 1.4 is not sofar solving the problem. We are facing serious deadlines and hopefully somebody can shed some light on this. $ xsql jeroen4.xsql Oracle XDK Java 9.2.0.6.0 Production XSQL-017: Unexpected Error Occurred java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/sql/Clob $ cat jeroen4.xsql <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsql:query connection="cbs" xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql"> select id, msg from cbs_msg_in </xsql:query> SQL> desc cbs_msg_in Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- ID NUMBER MSG CLOB Tnx, Jeroen -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l