The connection you are retrieving is probably a wrapped connection.
If you really need to get the underlying Oracle connection you should use:
if (connection.isWrapperFor(OracleConnection.class)){
OracleConnection oracleConnection= connection.unwrap(OracleConnection.class);
}else{
// recover, not an oracle connection
}
The isWrapperFor
and unwrap
methods are available since Java 1.6, and should be meaningfully implemented by the A/S connection wrappers.