10g (10.2.0.2) driver XA Connection Cache / xa connection pooling

Question

According to this table: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/java.102/b14355/overvw.htm#BABEAJHG, the XA Connection Cache was implemented in the 10.2 driver. However, I can't seem to get this to work. I noticed another user posted regarding this exact same problem about a month ago. Has anyone had any luck with this? Once I enable caching, I always get this exception:
SQLException: Can not use getXAConnection() when connection caching is enabled.
My code follows the code found here: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/java.102/b14355/concache.htm#CACDBBJI. Basically:
OracleXADataSource ods = new OracleXADataSource();
ods.setConnectionCachingEnabled(true);
ods.setConnectionCacheProperties(properties);
ods.getXAConnection(); // <---- throws exception

Answer 1

I would try connecting using an Oracle 8i client. Using a 10g client to connect to an 8i database is asking for trouble.
For example, someone in the following link got the same error as you, apparently through using an unsupported version of TOAD. It doesn't prove that your error is also due to an incompatible client, but I would start there. If you still get the same error when using an 8i client, we can look at other possibilities.
http://dbaspot.com/oracle-tools/411067-not-able-create-tables-using-toad.html
Edited by: karluk on May 12, 2011 3:07 PM