Hi,   I am trying to get the impala jdbc connection; below is the spring bean datasource definition for same. I am getting the exception while connecting; please refer to the exception below. Can someone please help   <bean id="ID1" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"> <property name="driverClassName" value="com.cloudera.impala.jdbc41.Driver" /> <property name="url" value="jdbc:impala://myhost:21050/;AuthMech=1;KrbRealm=myrealm;KrbServiceName=impala;KrbHostFQDN=xxx" /> </bean>   ==java.lang.NullPointerException ===Stack trace... java.util.Hashtable.put(Unknown Source) com.cloudera.jdbc.common.AbstractDriver.copyProperties(Unknown Source) com.cloudera.jdbc.common.AbstractDriver.connect(Unknown Source) java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source) java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source) org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriverManager(DriverManagerDataSource.java:173) org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriver(DriverManagerDataSource.java:164) org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.getConnectionFromDriver(AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.java:149) org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.getConnection(AbstractDriverBasedDataSource.java:119) org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.doGetConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:111) org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.getConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:77) ... View more