java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException for driver sqljdbc4.jar

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Issue

Follwoing exception was comming when starting JBoss with Microsoft SQL Server as the database.

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 is not supported by this driver. Use the sqljdbc4.jar class library, which provides support for JDBC 4.0.
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.<init>(SQLServerConnection.java:238)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(SQLServerDriver.java:841)

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5.x
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 ( sqljdbc.jar and sqljdbc4.jar )

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