Multi-threaded Clients Currently Cannot Use SSL (Doc ID 2113774.1)

Last updated on MAY 03, 2021

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Goal

There are several technical briefs, tutorials, and documents available from Oracle that demonstrate using SSL Strong Authentication with the Oracle JDBC client, such as:

SSL With Oracle JDBC Thin Driver 
Support for Strong Authentication

On the other hand, there is this statement in the Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide  :

"Multi-threaded clients currently cannot use SSL."

Since Java is inherently multi-threaded, and almost every useful jdbc application connects to the database using multiple threads, these two positions appear to be contradictory.

Can you clarify exactly what the restriction is ?

Solution

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