Actually I am getting an error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:sun/io/CharToByteConverter This is because in Java 8, the CharToByteConverter class has been removed as ...

Does anyone know why that was canned a long time ago? Seemed like it wasn't such a bad idea. My very naive guess is that ORM tools didn't need SQLJ and also plugged the gap. Anyway, still curious. ...