Adding local jar (oracle driver) to Maven and Bamboo

Question

I need to use the oracle database driver (oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver) for a project but Oracle does not have a Maven repository for it, so the only way that I have found is to download it onto my machine and then "install" the .jar to Maven as seen in this article .

However, now it is time to add the project to my work's Bamboo build server, but of course the build fails because it can't find the oracle driver.

My question is: how is this sort of thing generally handled? There doesn't seem to be a way to "add" a .jar to a Bamboo build and then point Maven on Bamboo to that .jar. Another alternative that I'm trying is putting the oracle .jar on an internal git repository but I don't know how to point Maven to pull a .jar from a git repository (my current understanding is that maven repos and git repos are different thing entirely).

Any tips or suggestions appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

The usual way is to set up a Nexus/Artifactory on a server. This server is used for the built artifacts (your Bamboo deploys the EARs/WARs/JARs to it), to proxy external repositories (not necessary, but will speed up things) and to manage third party jars that are not available elsewhere.

In your settings.xml you just point to this Nexus/Artifactory and do the same for the Bamboo.