Universal Connection Pool internal error: java.lang.NullPointerException After Upgrade To JDBC 21.9 (Doc ID 3009452.1)

Last updated on MARCH 18, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

Application seeing the error in affinity context even after the upgrade to the JDBC driver & UCP jar to 21.9

java.sql.SQLException: Exception occurred while getting connection: oracle.ucp.UniversalConnectionPoolException: Universal Connection Pool internal error: java.lang.NullPointerException
Line 574090: at oracle.ucp.util.UCPErrorHandler.newSQLException(UCPErrorHandler.java:498) ~[ucp-21.9.0.0.jar:21.9.0.0.0]
Line 574091: at oracle.ucp.util.UCPErrorHandler.throwSQLException(UCPErrorHandler.java:175) ~[ucp-21.9.0.0.jar:21.9.0.0.0]
Line 574116: Caused by: oracle.ucp.UniversalConnectionPoolException: Universal Connection Pool internal error: java.lang.NullPointerException
Line 574117: at oracle.ucp.util.UCPErrorHandler.newUniversalConnectionPoolException(UCPErrorHandler.java:378) ~[ucp-21.9.0.0.jar:21.9.0.0.0]
Line 574118: at oracle.ucp.util.UCPErrorHandler.throwUniversalConnectionPoolException(UCPErrorHandler.java:68) ~[ucp-21.9.0.0.jar:21.9.0.0.0]
Line 574119: at oracle.ucp.util.UCPErrorHandler.throwUniversalConnectionPoolException(UCPErrorHandler.java:91) ~[ucp-21.9.0.0.jar:21.9.0.0.0]
Line 574120: at oracle.ucp.util.UCPErrorHandler.throwUniversalConnectionPoolException(UCPErrorHandler.java:164) ~[ucp-21.9.0.0.jar:21.9.0.0.0]

Cause

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