[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-3159) Oracle 11g - desupport of oracle.jdbc.driver

Oracle 11g - desupport of oracle.jdbc.driver -------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3159 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3159 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 3.2.5 Environment: Hibernate 3.2.5GA, Oracle 11.1.0.6.0. Reporter: Dustin Schultz Assignee: Chris Bredesen Fix For: 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.5 Original Estimate: 1 minute Remaining Estimate: 1 minute With Oracle 11g, the deprecated package oracle.jdbc.driver no longer exists and this causes issues with all OracleDialect classes making it impossible to use Hibernate. This issue affects all of the following classes: Oracle9iDialect.java Oracle9Dialect.java Oracle10gDialect.java The line error in question is: Class types = ReflectHelper.classForName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTypes"); This simply needs to be changed to: Class types = ReflectHelper.classForName("oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes"); From the Oracle 11g readme.txt "In Oracle JDBC release 9.0.1 customer use of the classes in that package was deprecated. A new package, oracle.jdbc, was introduced and customers were advised to begin using the interfaces and classes defined in oracle.jdbc. In every release since 9.0.1 we have encouraged customers to switch to oracle.jdbc and stated that oracle.jdbc.driver would be desupported. The time has come. Customer code that references oracle.jdbc.driver will not compile and will not execute in this and future releases of the Oracle JDBC drivers. Please use oracle.jdbc instead." Thanks.