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

[D. S. (JIRA)]

Oracle 11g - desupport of oracle.jdbc.driver
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                 Key: HHH-3159
                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3159
             Project: Hibernate3
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 3.2.5
         Environment: Hibernate 3.2.5GA, Oracle 11.1.0.6.0.
            Reporter: D. S.


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.

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