Newer version of Oracle JDBC driver reports the following error codes and messages when Oracle crashed:

"Connection Reset" : 17002
"Connection Closed" : 17008

Current OracleExceptionSorter doesn't know this code and message, hence connections won't be discarded although it's a fatal connection error.

The Oracle JDBC driver version is:

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