2593948 - AS Java bootstrap node fails - NoSuchMethodError - jdbc.DriverSapDB.getJVMVersion

While using JVM 1.4 and MaxDB JDBC driver.

Java does not start and you can see the following error in jvm_bootstrap.out:

Exception occurred:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.util.regex.Pattern.quote(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;
at com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB.getJVMVersion(DriverSapDB.java:130)
at com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB.<clinit>(DriverSapDB.java:90)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forNameFW(Class.java:234)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:148)
at com.sap.sql.jdbc.NativeConnectionFactory.createNativeConnection(NativeConnectionFactory.java:134)
at com.sap.sql.connect.OpenSQLDataSourceImpl.createPooledConnection(OpenSQLDataSourceImpl.java:608)
at com.sap.sql.connect.OpenSQLDataSourceImpl.getPooledConnection(OpenSQLDataSourceImpl.java:285)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.persistence.rdbms.DBConnectionPool.createConnection(DBConnectionPool.java:307)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.persistence.rdbms.DBConnectionPool.<init>(DBConnectionPool.java:130)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.persistence.rdbms.PersistenceHandler.<init>(PersistenceHandler.java:38)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.cache.ConfigurationCache.<init>(ConfigurationCache.java:149)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.bootstrap.ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.init(ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.java:214)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.bootstrap.ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.<init>(ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.java:46)
at com.sap.engine.bootstrap.Synchronizer.<init>(Synchronizer.java:74)
at com.sap.engine.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initDatabaseConnection(Bootstrap.java:474)
at com.sap.engine.bootstrap.Bootstrap.<init>(Bootstrap.java:147)
at com.sap.engine.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:946)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:331)
at com.sap.engine.offline.OfflineToolStart.main(OfflineToolStart.java:81)

SAP NetWeaver for Application Server Java 7.0X
SAP Java Virtual Machine 4.X

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