Find Oracle JDBC driver in Maven repository

Question

I want to add the oracle jdbc driver to my project as dependency (runtime scope) - ojdbc14. In MVNrepository site the dependency to put in the POM is:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
    <artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
    <version>10.2.0.3.0</version>
</dependency>

1. How do I find a repository (if any) that contains this artifact?

2. How do I add it so that Maven will use it?

Answer 1

Download the jar and place it in your project src/lib. Now you can use the maven installer plugin.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>install-oracle-jdbc</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>install-file</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>clean</phase>
            <configuration>
                <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
                <artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
                <version>11.2.0</version>
                <packaging>jar</packaging>
                <generatePom>true</generatePom>
                <createChecksum>true</createChecksum>
                <file>${project.basedir}/src/lib/ojdbc6.jar</file>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Now you only have to execute mvn clean once and the oracle lib is installed in your local maven repository.