Unable to get an Oracle connection.

Hi,

I am using the following piece of code in order to get an oracle connection in a custom smart service plugin :-

public static Connection openNewConnection(String url, String username, String password) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
                    DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver());
                    Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
                    return connection;
}

It works perfectly fine as a standalone, but when used inside an Appian custum plugin, it gives "ClassCastExcepton" with the following message :-
"oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection cannot be cast to oracle.jdbc.OracleConnection".

Any clues to this issue ?

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