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JBoss Application Server Shows "pingDatabase failed status=-2" When Connecting to Oracle RDBMS (Doc ID 1446547.1)

Last updated on MAY 15, 2023

Applies to:

JDBC - Version 11.1.0.6 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Using the Oracle 11.x thin JDBC driver with a connection pool in the JBoss application server, J2EE applications intermittently fail to get a connection to the database server. The JBoss connection pool reports a failure while validating an open connection. The failure is signalled by the JDBC driver's pingDatabase(timeout) method returning a status code of -2.

The JBoss server may show the following stack back-trace:

Cause

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