Unable To Get Oracle UCP To Work With Tomcat And RAC DB With Error: " javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name [jdbcDS] is not bound in this Context. Unable to find [jdbcDS]."

(Doc ID 2340532.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 18, 2017

Applies to:

JDBC - Version 12.1.0.2.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

On : 12.1.0.2.0 version, Thin JDBC driver

It was recently migrated a database to RAC from single instance. One of the applications that uses Tomcat started dropping connections when using the existing connection pool.
It was followed the instructions in the following white paper to configure the UCP with a FCF enabled service.

  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/application-development/planned-unplanned-rlb-ucp-tomcat-2265175.pdf

The next errors started happening.

ERROR
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BUSINESS IMPACT
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The issue has the following business impact:
Due to this issue, this implementation was rolled back.

Cause

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