SQLException Due to Deadlock

[Alec Lee]

I use JDBC against oracle with con.setAutoCommit(false).

My transaction perform several updates so concurrent execution of my transaction may cause java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00060: deadlock detected while waiting for resource.

Normally, I think I should do a rollback and retry the transaction that failed due to deadlock. My question is how my java code identify the SQLException is caused by deadlock? Is it by parsing the String returned from exception.getMessage() to see if it contains ORA-00060? Would there be a better approach?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Alec,
Unfortunately that's pretty much the only way to check - no better ways.

[Carol Enderlin]

You could take a look at SQLException's getErrorCode() method since it returns an int, from SQLException API:
getErrorCode
public int getErrorCode()
Retrieves the vendor-specific exception code for this SQLException object.

Returns:
the vendor's error code


From Oracle's Processing SQL Exceptions:

getErrorCode()

For errors originating in either the JDBC driver or the RDBMS, this method returns the five-digit ORA number.

[ April 04, 2005: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]