java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/tip/adapter/db/DBConnectionManager

During activation of one of our osb project we get the next stacktrace

[sourcecode language=”java”]
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/tip/adapter/db/DBConnectionManager
at oracle.tip.adapter.db.DBConnectionFactory.(DBConnectionFactory.java:71)
at oracle.tip.adapter.db.DBManagedConnectionFactory.createConnectionFactory(DBManagedConnectionFactory.java:274)
at oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.wsif.jca.WSIFPort_JCA.getResourceAdapterMetaData(WSIFPort_JCA.java:729)
at oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.wsif.jca.WSIFPort_JCA.parseDeploymentDescriptorProps(WSIFPort_JCA.java:210)
at oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.wsif.jca.WSIFOperation_JCA.executeOperation(WSIFOperation_JCA.java:331)
at oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.wsif.jca.WSIFOperation_JCA.executeRequestResponseOperation(WSIFOperation_JCA.java:316)
at oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.JCABindingReferenceImpl.invokeWsifProvider(JCABindingReferenceImpl.java:359)
at oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.JCABindingReferenceImpl.request(JCABindingReferenceImpl.java:257)
at com.bea.wli.sb.transports.jca.binding.JCATransportOutboundOperationBindingServiceImpl.invoke(JCATransportOutboundOperationBindingServiceImpl.java:150)
at com.bea.wli.sb.transports.jca.JCATransportEndpoint.sendRequestResponse(JCATransportEndpoint.java:209)
at com.bea.wli.sb.transports.jca.JCATransportEndpoint.send(JCATransportEndpoint.java:170)
at com.bea.wli.sb.transports.jca.JCATransportProvider.sendMessageAsync(JCATransportProvider.java:571)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.bea.wli.sb.transports.Util$1.invoke(Util.java:83)
at $Proxy125.sendMessageAsync(Unknown Source)
[/sourcecode]

Solution (for us)

Make sure the adapter itself in deployments is targeted to both the admin server and managed servers

Thanks to Marc for the genius solution 😉