hello everyone

i m trying to connect the oracle 8g with netbeans 5.5. the connection is ok and
i can sucessfully execute qureys via the query analyser (named sql command in
netbeans). i can see the tables if i run "select * from tab" in the query
analyser. but if i click "Tables" runtime window it will wait for some time and
show a red icon in the status bar. i m adding the info in the window which
appear when i click the red icon

java.lang.AbstractMethodError:
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseMajorVersion()I
	at
org.netbeans.lib.ddl.adaptors.DefaultAdaptor.getDatabaseMajorVersion(DefaultAdaptor.java:3967)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.db.explorer.infos.TableListNodeInfo.initChildren(TableListNodeInfo.java:49)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.db.explorer.infos.DatabaseNodeInfo.getChildren(DatabaseNodeInfo.java:675)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.db.explorer.DatabaseNodeChildren$2.run(DatabaseNodeChildren.java:94)
	at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:499)
[catch] at
org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:932)