Question

I cannot seem to get Maven to bundle the ojdbc6.jar file into my project’s war file. I have it working within the POM file when specifying a dependency directly for Hibernate tools. But it won’t get bundled with the project’s war file, and therefore my project won’t run on Tomcat.

I have tried every solution I can find out there on the net, including those specified for this question here:

Find Oracle JDBC driver in Maven repository

Most recently, I did the following:

1. Download the jar file to my machine

2. Run the following command to install the jar into my local repository:

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

   (I’ve tried all kinds of variants of that command, too.)

3. Finally, I put the dependency into my pom file:

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

4. I run a clean build, but it fails:

   mvn -U clean package
   
   [INFO] Scanning for projects...
   [INFO]                                                                         
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Building jazztwo 0.0.1
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/oracle/ojdbc6/11.2.0.3/ojdbc6-11.2.0.3.jar
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Total time: 0.700s
   [INFO] Finished at: Tue Mar 27 15:06:14 PDT 2012
   [INFO] Final Memory: 3M/81M
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project jazztwo: Could not resolve dependencies for project edu.berkeley:jazztwo:war:0.0.1: Could not find artifact com.oracle:ojdbc6:jar:11.2.0.3 in central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) -> [Help 1]
   

Why doesn’t this work? I’m ready to throw expensive computer parts across the room. This has wasted so much time. (Thank you, Oracle. How much did we pay you again?)

Is it because I’m on a Mac, perhaps?

Answer 1

The correct answer was supplied by Raghuram in the comments section to my original question.

For whatever reason, pointing “mvn install” to a full path of the physical ojdbc6.jar file didn’t work for me. (Or I consistently repeatedly flubbed it up when running the command, but no errors were issued.)

cd-ing into the directory where I keep ojdb6.jar and running the command from there worked the first time.

If Raghuram would like to answer this question, I’ll accept his answer instead. Thanks everyone!