datasource connection issue on WebSphere9

[Pravin Sumit]

[1/10/20 12:30:33:307 UTC] 00000092 J2CUtilityCla E   J2CA0036E: An exception occurred while invoking method setDataSourceProperties on com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.spi.WSManagedConnectionFactoryImpl used by resource jdbc/contentDatasource : java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE003 bad major version; class=oracle/jdbc/pool/OracleConnectionPoolDataSource, offset=6
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:377)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:154)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:729)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$400(URLClassLoader.java:95)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:1184)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:730)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:604)
at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.ExtClassLoader.findClass(ExtClassLoader.java:244)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassHelper(ClassLoader.java:924)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:869)
at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.ExtClassLoader.loadClass(ExtClassLoader.java:135)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:852)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.DSConfigHelper.loadClass(DSConfigHelper.java:1526)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.DSConfigHelper.createDataSource(DSConfigHelper.java:745)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.spi.WSRdbDataSource.createNewDataSource(WSRdbDataSource.java:3029)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.spi.WSRdbDataSource.<init>(WSRdbDataSource.java:1358)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.spi.WSManagedConnectionFactoryImpl.setDataSourceProperties(WSManagedConnectionFactoryImpl.java:2700)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:90)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
. Processing halted.
[1/10/20 12:30:33:312 UTC] 00000092 ConnectionFac E   J2CA0009E: An exception occurred while trying to instantiate the ManagedConnectionFactory class com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.spi.WSManagedConnectionFactoryImpl used by resource jdbc/contentDatasource : java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:90)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:508)
at com.ibm.ejs.j2c.J2CUtilityClass.createMCFEntry(J2CUtilityClass.java:532)
at com.ibm.ejs.j2c.ConnectionFactoryBuilderServerImpl.createMCFandPM(ConnectionFactoryBuilderServerImpl.java:594)
at com.ibm.ejs.j2c.ConnectionFactoryBuilderServerImpl.processObjectInstance(ConnectionFactoryBuilderServerImpl.java:1161)
at com.ibm.ejs.j2c.ServerFunction.processObjectInstance(ServerFunction.java:2026)
at com.ibm.ejs.j2c.ConnectionFactoryBuilderImpl.getObjectInstance(ConnectionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:664)
at org.apache.aries.jndi.ObjectFactoryHelper.getObjectInstanceUsingObjectFactoryBuilders(ObjectFactoryHelper.java:349)
at org.apache.aries.jndi.ObjectFactoryHelper.getObjectInstance(ObjectFactoryHelper.java:89)
at org.apache.aries.jndi.OSGiObjectFactoryBuilder.getObjectInstance(OSGiObjectFactoryBuilder.java:62)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:311)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.Helpers.processSerializedObjectForLookupExt(Helpers.java:1122)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.util.Helpers.processSerializedObjectForLookup(Helpers.java:925)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.jndicos.CNContextImpl.processBoundObjectForLookup(CNContextImpl.java:2877)
at com.ibm.ws.naming.jndicos.CNContextImpl.processResolveResults(CNContextImpl.java:3974)

[Dave Tolls]

What version of the JRE is used in your WebSphere?
What version of the Oracle JDBC driver are you using?

[Pravin Sumit]

JRE Version = JRE 1.8.0
Oracle JDBC driver = Driver ojdbc8.jar

[Tim Holloway]

You would typically see this message when the called class was compiled for a newer version of Java than the calling class was. In your case, that would seem to indicate that the version of WebSphere you're using is too old to use that particular Oracle JDBC Driver library.

[Pravin Sumit]

We are using below java versions

java version "1.8.0_151"
javac -version 1.8.0

same on websphere 9