Invalid operation for forward only resultset when running jdbcItemReader with Oracle

When running with Oracle database, had the following errors from JdbcItemReader.
See this JBeret Forum thread for details.

ERROR: JBERET000007: Failed to run job org.jberet.support.io.JdbcReaderCheckpointTest, org.jberet.support.io.JdbcReaderCheckpointTest.step1, org.jberet.job.model.Chunk@4bd20a04
java.sql.SQLException: Invalid operation for forward only resultset : absolute
at oracle.jdbc.driver.InsensitiveScrollableResultSet.absolute(InsensitiveScrollableResultSet.java:1255)
at org.jberet.support.io.JdbcItemReader.open(JdbcItemReader.java:208)
at org.jberet.runtime.runner.ChunkRunner.run(ChunkRunner.java:195)
at org.jberet.runtime.runner.StepExecutionRunner.runBatchletOrChunk(StepExecutionRunner.java:223)
at org.jberet.runtime.runner.StepExecutionRunner.run(StepExecutionRunner.java:142)
at org.jberet.runtime.runner.CompositeExecutionRunner.runStep(CompositeExecutionRunner.java:170)
at org.jberet.runtime.runner.CompositeExecutionRunner.runFromHeadOrRestartPoint(CompositeExecutionRunner.java:94)
at org.jberet.runtime.runner.JobExecutionRunner.run(JobExecutionRunner.java:58)
at org.jberet.spi.JobExecutor$1.run(JobExecutor.java:100)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1135)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844)