Database 11gR2 Returning Different Error To The JDBC Application ORA-604 Instead Of ORA-1000 (Doc ID 1328537.1)

Symptoms

An application that connects to the database using jdbc

When connecting to a 10.2.0.5.0 database
The application received the returning values this way:

toString(): java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded
getErrorCode(): 1000
getSQLState(): 72000
getNextException(): null

When connecting to an 11.2.0.2.0 database the error received is not ORA-1000 but ORA-604:

toString(): java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded
ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded

getErrorCode(): 604
getSQLState: 60000
getNextException(): null

Cause

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