Which jdbc driver to use

In setting the scheduler in Publisher I discovered a useful difference in jdbc drivers.
Our repository is on Oracle 11g.
According to the manual oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver should be used, but previous installations have used oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver so I tried this too.

In experimenting with both I found you get more useful feedback from the second one. Here’s the same problem reported by both drivers:

· Exception [TOPLINK-4002] (Oracle TopLink - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.0.0) (Build 080319)): oracle.toplink.exceptions.DatabaseException Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-28000: the account is locked Error Code: 28000

· Exception [TOPLINK-4021] (Oracle TopLink - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.0.0) (Build 080319)): oracle.toplink.exceptions.DatabaseException Exception Description: Unable to acquire a connection from driver [oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver], user [OBIEE_PUBL_SCHED] and URL [jdbc:oracle:thin:@dbserver.company.com:1521:ORACLESID]. Verify that you have set the expected driver class and URL. Check your login, persistence.xml or sessions.xml resource. The jdbc.driver property should be set to a class that is compatible with your database platform Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-28000: the account is locked Error Code: 28000

As you can see with the highlighting that I’ve added the second driver gives you the really useful stuff - which ID and server it’s trying to connect to.

Obviously I can check what’s been configured to trace back which ID and server should be being used - but it’s always useful to get confirmation of what it’s actually doing just to rule out me having been stupid and typed the wrong options :)