getDatabaseMajorVersion unsupported by some Oracle drivers ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-514 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-514 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.0.4 Environment: WLS 8.1 SP2, Hibernate 3.0.4, Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0, Oracle JDBC driver 9.2.0.3.0 Reporter: Mathias Bogaert Priority: Critical Put an extra try catch around databaseMajorVersion = meta.getDatabaseMajorVersion(); in SettingsFactory (change occured in version 1.31) and handle 0 value in DialectFactory.buildDialect. WARN - Could not obtain connection metadata java.sql.SQLException: Kenmerk wordt niet ondersteund. at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134) at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179) at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:269) at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwUnsupportedFeatureSqlException(DBError.java:690) at oracle.jdbc.OracleDatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseMajorVersion(OracleDatabaseMetaData.java:4451) at weblogic.jdbc.wrapper.DatabaseMetaData_oracle_jdbc_driver_OracleDatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseMajorVersion(Unknown Source ) at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:75) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:1463) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1004)