Opening Notification Workbox Causes Unsupported Feature SQL Exception

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Symptoms

When opening notification workbox, a "System Error" page is displayed and the following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2012-09-28 13:20:07,207 ERROR [http-19999-6] [ContainerBase.[Standalone].[localhost].[/<url>]] log Unhandled exception occurred whilst decorating page -- referer: http://<confluence-url>/display/releaseMgmt/ReportMgmt-1.5.6 | url: /plugins/servlet/notifications-miniview | userName: admin java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException at com.atlassian.mywork.host.dao.ao.AORegistrationDao.get(AORegistrationDao.java:47) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.atlassian.activeobjects.tx.TransactionalProxy.invoke(TransactionalProxy.java:79) at com.atlassian.activeobjects.tx.TransactionalProxy.access$000(TransactionalProxy.java:18) at com.atlassian.activeobjects.tx.TransactionalProxy$1.doInTransaction(TransactionalProxy.java:63) ..... Caused by: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException at $Proxy1311.prepareStatement(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) ..... Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) ..... Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Unsupported feature at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:125) at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:162) at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:227) .....

Cause

This error is caused by unsupported/incompatible version of Oracle JDBC driver

Resolution

  • Refer to this documentation to check for the compatible version of Oracle JDBC driver

  • Download the JDBC and replace the old JDBC with the newer version in <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib

Updated on April 8, 2025

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