Oracle JDBC driver 9.2.0.1 bug

The following exception throws while batch updating using Hibernate 3.x with JDBC driver 9.2.0.1:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBData.clearItem(DBData.java:431)
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBDataSetImpl.clearItem(DBDataSetImpl.java:3528)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.clearParameters(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3401)

I found the solution from a posting in Oracle forum (http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=190963) and that says:

Oracle seems to have corrected one line in in
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBData, method void clearItem(int i)

version 9.2.0.1:
if(m_items == null && i >= m_items.length) {

version 9.2.0.3:
if(m_items == null || i >= m_items.length) {

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Another way to avoid this NPE is to avoid using the JDBC2 batch update feature.
For our (hibernate) implementation this corresponds to setting the property 'jdbc.batch_size' to zero.