A PR would be great, and we can include the *Oracle Free Use Terms and
Conditions (FUTC)* license in the extension if that is what is required.

Also individual extensions can make notices in the server status modules
tab, if they want to report availability of a library, or link to some
license notice (if that is required in the running application).
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 02:45, Mark Prins <mc.pr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13-12-2019 11:08, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > Following up on last meetings discussion on supporting oracle: Oracle
> > JDBC drivers on Maven Central
> > <
> https://medium.com/oracledevs/oracle-jdbc-drivers-on-maven-central-64fcf724d8b
> >
> >
> > Based on the I would like to remove the manual process of installing
> > ojdbc7 into your local repo, and replace with something like:
> >
> >      <dependency>
> >       <groupId>com.oracle.ojdbc</groupId>
> >       <artifactId>ojdbc8</artifactId>
> >       <version>19.3.0.0</version>
> >      </dependency>
> >
> > Can I ask if anyone is using odjbc8 already?
>
> I don't think this happened yet has it?
>
> Oracle's first try at using Maven central was nearly succesful;
> advancing insights made them decide to move the drivers to diffent
> groupId's as described in the post om medium [1]
>
> the TLDR:
> - all versions now available (19.3.0.0, 18.3.0.0, 12.2.0.1 and some
> 11.2.0.4)
> - new groupId for production jar's at com.oracle.database.jdbc
> - net groupId for debug jars (postfixed with _g) at
> com.oracle.database.jdbc.debug
> - all have sources + javadoc jar's as required
>
> so above snippet should be
>
>      <dependency>
>        <groupId>com.oracle.database.jdbc</groupId>
>        <artifactId>ojdbc8</artifactId>
>        <version>19.3.0.0</version>
>      </dependency>
>
> for production use, or
>
>      <dependency>
>        <groupId>com.oracle.database.jdbc.debug</groupId>
>        <artifactId>ojdbc8_g</artifactId>
>        <version>19.3.0.0</version>
>      </dependency>
>
> for debugging.
>
> I can prepare a PR if you like.
>
> Not sure where to a a note about the license "Oracle Free Use Terms and
> Conditions (FUTC)"
> (I think that would only concern geoserver as that would/could
> distribute the driver jar with the extension. Some lawyer should decide
> on that I guess.)
>
> [1]
>
> https://medium.com/@kuassimensah/all-in-and-new-groupids-oracle-jdbc-drivers-on-maven-central-a76d545954c6
>
>
>
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