Thin Oracle driver and transparent rejection of RAC DB

Question

I know that the oci driver can transparently transition to another database resource, but does the thin driver have the same capabilities?

Answer 1

The thin driver does not support TAF as the OCI driver does as described in the FAQ .

When using the Thin driver, the built-in RAC features are available to quickly reconnect:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/java.111/b31224/fstconfo.htm