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database server – the first step to have Java applications working with one of the most popular
database systems. Suppose you already had a version of Oracle database installed, such as Oracle
Database Express Edition.
Table of content:
1.
1. Download JDBC driver library for Oracle database
2. JDBC database URL for Oracle database
3. Register Oracle JDBC driver
4. Establish connection to Oracle database
5. Java Connect to Oracle Database Example program
1. Download JDBC driver library for Oracle database
To make a Java program talks with Oracle database, we need to have the Oracle JDBC driver
(OJDBC) present in the classpath. Click here to visit Oracle’s JDBC driver download page. Then
select the JDBC driver version that matches Oracle database sever and JDK installed on your
computer. Currently there are two main versions of OJDBC:
- OJDBC 8: certified with JDK 8, for Oracle database 11g and 12c.
- OJDBC 10: certified with JDK 10, for Oracle database 18c and 19c.
NOTE: Oracle requires users to have an Oracle account for downloading, so you may have to
register an account if you don’t have one.
Extract the downloaded archive, and place the ojdbc10.jar file under your project’s classpath as
usual as using any jar file.
If you use Maven, add the following dependency to the pom.xml file:
1 <dependency>
2 <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
3 <artifactId>ojdbc8</artifactId>
4 <version>1.0</version>
5 <scope>system</scope>
6 <systemPath>d:/Path/To/Oracle/JDBC/ojdbc8.jar</systemPath>
7 </dependency>
jdbc:oracle:<drivertype>:<user>/<password>@<database>
Where:
Oracle categorizes their JDBC driver into four different types, as described in the following table:
Driver type Usage drivertype
Thin Driver For client-side use without an Oracle installation thin
OCI Driver For client-side use with an Oracle installation oci
Server-Side Thin Driver Same as Thin Driver, but runs inside an Oracle thin
server to access a remote server
Server-Side Internal Driver Runs inside the target server kprb
According to Oracle, if your JDBC client and Oracle database server are running on the same
machine, you should use the OCI Driver because it is much faster than the Thin Driver (The OCI
Driver can use Inter Process Communication – IPC, whereas the Thin Driver can use only network
connection).
For example, if you want to connect user tiger with password scott to an Oracle database with
SID productDB through default port on host dbHost using the Thin Driver, you can construct the
URL as follows:
1 String url = “jdbc:oracle:thin:tiger/scott@dbHost:1521:productDB”
If using the OCI Driver:
1 String url = “jdbc:oracle:oci:tiger/scott@localhost:1521:productDB”
2 String url = “jdbc:oracle:oci:tiger/scott@dbHost:1521:productDB”
If you have a TNSNAMES entry productionDB in the tnsnames.ora file, you can construct the
URL as follows:
1 String url = “jdbc:oracle:oci:@productionDB”
For the Server-Side Thin Driver, use the same URL as the Thin Driver.
For the Server-Side Internal Driver, use the following URLs:
1 String url = "jdbc:oracle:kprb:"
2 String url = "jdbc:default:connection:"
Because in that environment, the driver actually runs within a default session, and the client is
always connected so the connection should never be closed.
3. Register Oracle JDBC driver
The Oracle JDBC driver class name is oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver.You can register this driver as
follows:
1 DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver());
or:
1 Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");
NOTE:Since Java 6 (JDBC 4.0), registering the driver explicitly as above becomes optional. As long
as we put the ojdbc10.jar file in the classpath, JDBC driver manager can detect and load the driver
automatically.
4. Establish connection to Oracle database
With JDBC, we can establish a database connection by calling the method getConnection() of
the DriverManager class. There are three versions of this method:
o static Connection getConnection(String url)
o static Connection getConnection(String url, Properties info)
o static Connection getConnection(String url, String user, String password)