currently not (no-one needed it so far) but it can be done with a few copy-pastes e.g. it's happening for the Firebird adapter (and a few others as well) :
https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/blob/master/lib/arjdbc/firebird/adapter.rb#L43
so something like that needs to be added somewhere here :
https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/blob/master/lib/arjdbc/derby/adapter.rb#L56
looking for a PR :)