How to add Oracle JDBC driver in your Maven local repository

By mkyong | April 21, 2011 | Updated : February 14, 2017 | Viewed : 443,418 | +2,347 pv/w

Here’s a guide to show you how to add an Oracle JDBC driver into your Maven local repository, and also how to reference it in pom.xml.

Note
Due to Oracle license restrictions, the Oracle JDBC driver is not available in the public Maven repository. To use the Oracle JDBC driver with Maven, you have to download and install it manually into your Maven local repository.

1. Get Oracle JDBC Driver

Two ways to get the Oracle jdbc driver :

1. Visit Oracle website to get the Oracle JDBC driver – ojdbc6.jar or ojdbc7.jar

2. Not recommend, but you can get the JDBC driver from the Oracle database installed folder, for example – {ORACLE_HOME}\jdbc\lib\ojdbc6.jar

2. Maven Install

To install the Oracle jdbc drivers :

2.1 ojdbc6.jar


$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile={Path/to/your/ojdbc6.jar} 
      -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dversion=11.2.0 -Dpackaging=jar

2.2 ojdbc7.jar


$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile={Path/to/your/ojdbc7.jar} 
      -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc7 -Dversion=12.1.0 -Dpackaging=jar

Full example to install a ojdbc7.jar

Terminal


> mvn install:install-file -Dfile=C:\\OracleJDBC\\ojdbc7.jar 
           -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc7 -Dversion=12.1.0 -Dpackaging=jar

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install-file (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Installing C:\OracleJDBC\ojdbc7.jar to C:\Users\mkyong\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc7\12.1.0\ojdbc7-12.1.0.jar
[INFO] Installing C:\Users\mkyong\AppData\Local\Temp\mvninstall2095378400735903278.pom 
       to C:\Users\mkyong\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc7\12.1.0\ojdbc7-12.1.0.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.332 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-02-13T21:26:03+08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/309M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Done.

3. pom.xml

pom.xml


<dependencies>

        <!-- ojdbc6.jar example -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
            <artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
            <version>11.2.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- ojdbc7.jar example -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
            <artifactId>ojdbc7</artifactId>
            <version>12.1.0</version>
        </dependency>

</dependencies>

References

How to include library manually into Maven local repository

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neha

com.oracle
ojdbc6
11.2.0

missing arifects in pom.xml

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Yuli

I have the similar issue say this “artifactId missing”

Guest

I believe it is because oracle does not allow their driver to be on maven repo site anymore. Need to be added manually. (Or so I believe)

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Daniel

Thank you so much! All your post are amazing!

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thanks lot

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Johnny O

I want to recommend you’re an exellent resource, thanks mkyong !!

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Fatos

Thank you very much

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Great!!

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KingFeming

If you want ojdbc, What you can do is download the ojdbc6.jar and include it as a “Web App Libraries” by Right Clicking your project and select java build path and under Libraries select Add external jars and select the location to the jar that you have downloaded (ojdbc6.jar).

Please not this instruction is given for Eclipse.

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Waseem

Thanks, very helpful

Guest

am getting this error ..please help me out :-
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=D:oraclexeapporacleproduct11.2.0serverjdbclib -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dversion=11.2.0 -Dpackaging=jar

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Oik

I’m newbie in this framework. can you tell me where i should execute mvn install command in windows?

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Ankur Saxena

try out in cmd..dos prompt

Guest

Genius. Thanks!

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Vijay Kumar

Thanks. It was wonderful!

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Carlos Gonzaga

Very good stuff.
Thank you mkyong

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paiker

I am getting the below exception, could you please suggest.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project SpringExamplesDAO: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.mkyong.common:SpringExamplesDAO:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact com.oracle:ojdbc6:jar:11.2.0 in central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) -> [Help 1]

Though i already installed ojdbc6.jar in local .m2

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paiker

Can anyone please help me as , my maven is not picking up the com.oracle:ojdbc6:jar:11.2.0 jar from local repository within .m2/

It is pointing to maven repository from internet and it doesn’t find jar there, though i have registered it there in .m2/ with the help of above procedure

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paiker

Guys,

Problem has been solved now, there was some version problem,
I had jdk1.6 with maven-3.0.4.

Now i have installed Maven 2.2.1, and problem has been solved.

Thanks

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mano

Hi mkyong…
the jdbc driver jar is not getting installed in m2 repository when i am executing the command ..
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=C:\app\msarilla\product\11.2.0\dbhome_2\jdbc\lib\ojdbc6.jar -DgroupId=com.oracle – DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dversion=11.2.0 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
when i execute the command the build was successful but the ojdbc6 file is not installed to the m2 repo.
i am getting the following message in the build console:

[INFO] Installing C:\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin\ojdbc6.jar to C:\Users\msarilla\.m2\
repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6-11.2.0.jar
[DEBUG] Skipped re-installing C:\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin\ojdbc6.jar to C:\Users\m
sarilla\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6-11.2.0.jar, seems unchang
ed..
from the above messages i can see that the jar installation is skipped coz its already there..but actually there is no ojdbc6 jar…
any suggestions…

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anamika mishra

why not simply add the following repository to your project

<repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>codelds</id>
      <url>https://code.lds.org/nexus/content/groups/main-repo</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

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Dauka

Thank you! You helped me out ^_^

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Balamurugan

Hi,
I have the same problem what sajid is facing. Anyting specific, do I need to do?

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sajid

Hi, i completed the steps above, but still facing ‘Missing artifact com.oracle:ojdbc6:jar:11.2.0.3:compile’.
Also, after step 2, i think the jar file should be automatically placed in repository, but it doesnt happen and i can see only _maven.repositories, ojdbc6-11.2.0.3.pom and ojdbc6-11.2.0.3.jar.lastUpdated. Is there anything that i am missing.

Thanks.
sajid

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Ben Weaver

This and other pages you have put are excellent. Very practical and clear–real time-savers. Thank you.

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JAY

This article is nice and simple to understand.

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elres

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Dozer

Thank you for sharing!

How to add Oracle JDBC driver in your Maven local repository

1. Get Oracle JDBC Driver

2. Maven Install

3. pom.xml

References

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