AbstractMethodError thrown at runtime with java.sql.Connection
<p>I'm trying to work through creating a very simple class to send queries to an instance of Oracle XE 11g, essentially making a <strong>very</strong> simple SQL*Plus to get the basics of JDBC down. </p>

<p>The source code I'm currently working with is:</p>

<pre><code>public class Example {
    static String username, password;
    static String dbDriver = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
    static String dbConnection = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@//localhost:1521/xe";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        String line;
        Connection c = null;
        Statement stmt = null;
        int loginAttempts = 0;

        // Log in loop
        do {
            try {
                Class.forName(dbDriver);
                System.out.print("Enter username: ");
                line = input.nextLine();
                if (line.contains("/")) {
                    String[] login = line.split("/");
                    if (login.length != 2) {
                        System.out
                                .println("Unrecognized information, exiting...");
                        System.exit(0);
                    }

                    username = login[0].trim();
                    password = login[1].trim();
                } else {
                    username = line;
                    System.out.print("Enter password: ");
                    password = input.nextLine();
                }

                c = DriverManager.getConnection(dbConnection, username,
                        password);
                stmt = c.createStatement();
                loginAttempts = -1;
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                System.err.println("Unable to connect to database, exiting...");
                System.exit(-1);
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                System.out.println("Username and/or password is incorrect");
                if (++loginAttempts == 1) {
                    System.out.println("Too many failed login attempts, exiting...");
                    System.exit(0);
                }
            }
        } while (loginAttempts != -1);

        // Input loop
        for (;;) {
            try {
                // Write out the prompt text and wait for input
                if(c == null) {
                    throw new IllegalStateException("Connection should not be null");
                }
                System.out.print(c.getSchema() + ":&gt; ");
                String tmp = input.nextLine();

                // Check if the user entered "exit"
                if (tmp.toLowerCase().equals("exit")) {
                    System.out.println("Exiting...");
                    input.close();
                    System.exit(0);
                }

                String query;
                // TODO: For some reason, no semi-colon is allowed
                if (tmp.charAt(tmp.length() - 1) == ';')
                    query = tmp.split(";")[0];
                else
                    query = tmp;
                // System.out.println(query);
                ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery(query);
                ResultSetMetaData rmd = rset.getMetaData();
                int colCount = rmd.getColumnCount();

                // Column indices start with 1, print column names
                for (int i = 1; i &lt;= colCount; i++) {
                    System.out.printf("%-20.20s   ", rmd.getColumnName(i));
                }
                System.out.println();

                while (rset.next()) {
                    for (int i = 0; i &lt; colCount; i++) {
                        System.out.printf("%-20.20s | ", rset.getString(i + 1));
                    }
                    System.out.println();
                }
                System.out.println();
            } catch (SQLSyntaxErrorException e) {
                System.out.println("Encountered a syntax error:\n"
                        + e.getMessage());
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                System.err.println("An unexpected error occurred");
                e.printStackTrace();
                input.close();
                System.exit(-1);
            }
        }

    }
}
</code></pre>

<p>In the second try/catch block, in the <code>for(;;)</code> loop, I get the following output:</p>

<pre><code>Enter username: hr/hr
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AbstractMethodError: oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.getSchema()Ljava/lang/String;
at jdbctest.Example.main(Example.java:69)
</code></pre>

<p>I checked out the <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/" rel="noreferrer">Oracle docs</a> (java.lang.AbstractMethodError), and it says that this error can only be thrown if:</p>

<p>"the definition of some class has incompatibly changed since the currently executing method was last compiled." </p>

<p>I'm thinking that there's something I'm missing with line 27, but I'm not sure how to approach this problem and any guidance would be extremely helpful.</p>