Bigger Type Length Than Maximum

Problem: Connecting to an Oracle 10g database via Oracle JDBC driver and Java 1.4.2, generates the following SQLException:

Establishing connection with jdbc:oracle:thin:@bomdev:1521:DEV1... Connected!
java.sql.SQLException: Bigger type length than Maximum
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:125)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:162)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.check_error(DatabaseError.java:885)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.buffer2Value(T4CMAREngine.java:2202)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.unmarshalUB4(T4CMAREngine.java:1150)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.unmarshalDALC(T4CMAREngine.java:2076)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8TTIuds.unmarshal(T4C8TTIuds.java:132)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIdcb.receiveCommon(T4CTTIdcb.java:126)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIdcb.receiveFromRefCursor(T4CTTIdcb.java:104)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CResultSetAccessor.unmarshalOneRow(T4CResultSetAccessor.java:167)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIrxd.unmarshal(T4CTTIrxd.java:792)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIrxd.unmarshal(T4CTTIrxd.java:708)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.receive(T4C8Oall.java:530)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement.doOall8(T4CCallableStatement.java:181)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement.execute_for_rows(T4CCallableStatement.java:784)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1027)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:2885)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.execute(OraclePreparedStatement.java:2976)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleCallableStatement.execute(OracleCallableStatement.java:4112)
	at com.pnm.utils.banner.StoredProc.execute(StoredProc.java:61)
	at com.pnm.utils.banner.StoredProc.testAddress(StoredProc.java:186)
	at com.pnm.utils.banner.StoredProc.main(StoredProc.java:569)
java.sql.SQLException: Protocol violation
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:125)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:162)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.check_error(DatabaseError.java:885)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C7Ocommoncall.receive(T4C7Ocommoncall.java:136)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logoff(T4CConnection.java:388)
	at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.close(PhysicalConnection.java:1047)
	at com.pnm.utils.banner.StoredProc.closeConnection(StoredProc.java:70)
	at com.pnm.utils.banner.StoredProc.main(StoredProc.java:609)

Per the manifest in ojdbc14.jar:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Version: "Oracle JDBC Driver version - 10.1.0.3.0"
Specification-Title:    "Oracle JDBC driver classes for use with JDK1
.4"
Specification-Version:  "Oracle JDBC Driver version - 10.1.0.3.0"
Implementation-Title:   "ojdbc14.jar"
Created-By: 1.2.2 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Implementation-Time:    "Thu Jul 15 02:16:50 2004"
Implementation-Vendor:  "Oracle Corporation"
Specification-Vendor:   "Oracle Corporation" .

Solution: Try an updated version of ojdbc14.jar which can be downloaded here. For this particular issue, the manifests for the following libraries resolved the exception:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Version: "Oracle JDBC Driver version - 10.1.0.5.0"
Specification-Title:    "Oracle JDBC driver classes for use with JDK1.
 4"
Specification-Version:  "Oracle JDBC Driver version - 10.1.0.5.0"
Implementation-Title:   "ojdbc14.jar"
Created-By: 1.2.2 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Implementation-Time:    "Wed Dec 28 05:06:13 2005"
Implementation-Vendor:  "Oracle Corporation"
Specification-Vendor:   "Oracle Corporation" .

and

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Specification-Title:    Oracle JDBC driver classes for use with JDK14
Sealed: true
Created-By: 1.4.2_08 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Implementation-Title:   ojdbc14.jar
Specification-Vendor:   Oracle Corporation
Specification-Version:  Oracle JDBC Driver version - "10.2.0.3.0"
Implementation-Version: Oracle JDBC Driver version - "10.2.0.3.0"
Implementation-Vendor:  Oracle Corporation
Implementation-Time:    Fri Sep 29 09:43:24 2006

Name: oracle/sql/converter/
Sealed: false

Name: oracle/sql/
Sealed: false

Name: oracle/sql/converter_xcharset/
Sealed: false