Adding Oracle JDBC driver to Maven 2 repository

I like my library JAR-files to be managed by Maven 2. It makes life much easier. Sadly, due to the binary license there is no public Maven 2 repository with the Oracle JDBC driver. So we have to add the JDBC driver manually to our local Maven 2 repository.

First, download the latest Oracle JDBC driver here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/index.html. Do a search on "JDBC" to find the correct download link.

If you're using Maven inside Eclipse like I am, the "mvn" command will not work from the command prompt. We have to install Maven 2 on our system. You can download Maven 2 here: http://maven.apache.org/download.html. Simply unzip, and make sure the "bin" directory is in your command path.

Now, we can install the JAR file with the following command:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6
  -Dversion=11.2.0.3 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=ojdbc6.jar -DgeneratePom=true

Be sure to check the parameters, like the version number.

Finally, we can use the Oracle JDBC driver in our Maven 2 project by adding the following dependency to our "pom.xml" file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
    <artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
    <version>11.2.0.3</version>
</dependency>