Grails App unable to connect to SQL Server (Malformed Reply from SOCKS Server)

I'm a newbie learning Grails by developing a small application that retrieves codes from a database. The details are -

- Apple Mac OS X (i.e. Unix).

- Grails 1.3.5 using NetBeans 6.9.1.

- SQL Server 2008 R2 Database, located on a different server.

- JTDS Driver

Here is the DataSource.groovy -

dataSource {
    pooled = false
    driverClassName = "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
    dialect="org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect"

}
hibernate {
    cache.use_second_level_cache = true
    cache.use_query_cache = true
    cache.provider_class = 'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheProvider'
}
// environment specific settings
environments {
    development {
          dataSource {
            dbCreate = "update" // one of 'create', 'create-drop','update'
            url = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hbtsqldev.domain.omitted.com.au:1433;databasename=TempDatabase;useCursorFetch=true;user=username;password=omitted"

        }
    }
    test {
        dataSource {
            dbCreate = "update"
            url = "jdbc:jtds:s开发者_Python百科qlserver://hbtsqldev.domain.omitted.com.au:1433;databasename=TempDatabase;useCursorFetch=true;user=username;password=omitted"
        }
    }
    production {
        dataSource {
            dbCreate = "update"
            url = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hbtsqldev.domain.omitted.com.au:1433;databasename=TempDatabase;useCursorFetch=true;user=username;password=omitted"
        }
    }
}

When I run the Grails app, I receive the following (very long) error messages -

2010-11-11 10:58:00,709 [main] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoader - Error executing bootstraps: Error creating bean with name 'messageSource': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'transactionManager': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sessionFactory' while setting bean property 'sessionFactory'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector' while setting bean property 'lobHandler'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Error while extracting DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'messageSource': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'transactionManager': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sessionFactory' while setting bean property 'sessionFactory'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector' while setting bean property 'lobHandler'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Error while extracting DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server at org.grails.tomcat.TomcatServer.start(TomcatServer.groovy:212) at grails.web.container.EmbeddableServer$start.call(Unknown Source) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5_closure12.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:158) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5_closure12.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy) at _GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.doCall(_GrailsSettings_groovy:280) at _GrailsSettings_groovy$_run_closure10.call(_GrailsSettings_groovy) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:149) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure5.call(_GrailsRun_groovy) at _GrailsRun_groovy.runInline(_GrailsRun_groovy:116) at _GrailsRun_groovy.this$4$runInline(_GrailsRun_groovy) at _GrailsRun_groovy$_run_closure1.doCall(_GrailsRun_groovy:59) at RunApp$_run_closure1.doCall(RunApp.groovy:33) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure5.doCall(Gant.groovy:381) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy:415) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure7.doCall(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy:427) at gant.Gant.this$2$withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant$this$2$withBuildListeners.callCurrent(Unknown Source) at gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:415) at gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:590) at gant.Gant.executeTargets(Gant.groovy:589) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'transactionManager': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sessionFactory' while setting bean property 'sessionFactory'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector' while setting bean property 'lobHandler'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Error while extracting DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'lobHandlerDetector' while setting bean property 'lobHandler'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Error while extracting DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'lobHandlerDetector': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Error while extracting DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by: org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Error while extracting DatabaseMetaData; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server ... 23 more Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.(ConnectionJDBC2.java:410) at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC3.(ConnectionJDBC3.java:50) at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver.connect(Driver.java:184) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:154) at $Proxy8.getMetaData(Unknown Source) ... 23 more Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Malformed reply from SOCKS server at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.readSocksReply(SocksSocketImpl.java:147) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:495) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529) at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SharedSocket.createSocketForJDBC3(SharedSocket.java:307) at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SharedSocket.(SharedSocket.java:257) at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.(ConnectionJDBC2.java:311) ... 28 more

Can anyone see where the problem might be? If you need me to provide any further info, please let me know.

Are you able to ping the database server from where you are running your tomcat? I am using Grails 1.3.5 with SQL Server 2005 with Microsoft JDBC 4.0 Driver. Works fine for me.

dataSource.driverClassName = com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
dataSource.url = jdbc:sqlserver://dbserver:1433;databaseName=testDB