Encountering "SQLServerException: The statement is closed." after update of JBoss EAP and/or update of the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver

Issue

• JBoss is configured with prepared-statement-cache-size > 0 (i.e. to enable pool-managed prepared statement caching)

• When a prepared statement is used a second time (after having previously been used in a different transaction or request context), the Microsoft SQL Server driver raises the exception below

  ... com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The statement is closed.
          at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDriverError(SQLServerException.java:234)
          at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.checkClosed(SQLServerStatement.java:1065)
  

• Issue encountered after update to later JBoss EAP 7.3 / 7.4 patch level OR update to SQL Server JDK 11 driver (from JDK 8 or earlier)
  • The issue did not occur with older JBoss EAP 7.3.7 or earlier nor with the 7.4 GA.
  • The issue did not occur with SQL Server JDK 8 driver versions.