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8.4. Install a JDBC Driver with the Management Console

Summary

Before your application can connect to a JDBC datasource, your datasource vendor's JDBC drivers need to be installed in a location where JBoss EAP 6 can use them. JBoss EAP 6 allows you to deploy these drivers like any other deployment. This means that you can deploy them across multiple servers in a server group, if you use a managed domain.

Prerequisites

Before performing this task, you need to meet the following prerequisites:

  • Download the JDBC driver from your database vendor.

Note

Any JDBC 4-compliant driver is automatically recognized and installed in the system by name and version. A JDBC JAR is identified using the Java service provider mechanism. Such JARs contain the META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver text, which contains the name of the Driver classes in that JAR.

Procedure 8.2. Modify the JDBC Driver JAR

If the JDBC driver JAR is not JDBC 4-compliant, it can be made deployable using the following method.
  1. Change to, or create, an empty temporary directory.
  2. Create a META-INF subdirectory.
  3. Create a META-INF/services subdirectory.
  4. Create a META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver file, which contains one line indicating the fully-qualified class name of the JDBC driver.
  5. Use the JAR command-line tool to update the JAR like this: 
    jar \-uf jdbc-driver.jar META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver
  6. Section 2.2.2, “Log in to the Management Console”
  7. If you use a managed domain, deploy the JAR file to a server group. Otherwise, deploy it to your server. See the Deploy with the Management Console section of the Administration and Configuration Guide for JBoss EAP 6 for more information.
Result:

The JDBC driver is deployed, and is available for your applications to use.

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