Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factor.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name  'myAppSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [myApp/util/dataSource/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
    more exceptions that don't matter
    .. 58 more
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoauthenticate.setSessionFields(T4CTTI0authenticate.java:972)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoauthenticate.<init>(T4CTTI0authenticate.java:185)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:352)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.<init>(PhysicalConnection.java:441)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.<init>(T4CConnection.java:165)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CDriverExtension.getConnection(T4CDriverExtension.java:35)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:801)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:38)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolableConnectionFactory.makeObject(PoolableConnectionFactory.java:294)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.validateConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1240)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1240)
    at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:882)
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.getconnection (LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.java:81)


<bean id="myAppPoolDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
    destroy-method="close
    p:driverclassName="${myApp.db.driver}"
    p:url="${myApp.url}"
    p:username="${myApp.userName}"
    p:password="${myApp.password}"
    p:maxActive="${myApp.maxActive}"
    p:initialSize="${myApp.initialSize}"
/>

<bean id="myAppSessionFactory"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean"
    p:dataSource-ref="myAppPoolDataSource">
    <property name="mappingResources">
        <list>
            <value>myApp/util/TableOne.hbm.xml</value>
            <value>myApp/util/TableTwo.hbm.xml</value>
            <value>myApp/util/TableThree.hbm.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

The oracle .jar is:
mvn:com.oracle/ojdbc14/10.2.0.4.0
myApp.db.driver is set to oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
myApp.url is set to: jdbc:oracle:thin:@<ip>:<port>:sandbox