Spring boot Cannot load driver class: oracle.jdbc.OracleDrive - oracle

Question

I have driver class in class-path in my jar:
2015-06-18 12:21:40.290 INFO 9453 --- [ main] .b.l.ClasspathLoggingApplicationListener : Application failed to start with classpath:
.....
jar:file:/{projecthome}/rest-test/target/rest-test-0.1.0.jar!/lib/ojdbc6-11.2.0.3.0.jar!/]
I got exception:
Factory method 'dataSource' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load driver class: oracle.jdbc.OracleDrive
My pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>rest-test</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<properties>
<start-class>hello.Application</start-class>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>${tomcat.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.3.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<name>rest-test</name>
</project>

Answer 1

Download ojdbc6.jar from Oracle website or if you install oracle11g in your local system you can find ojdbc in jdbc/lib folder.
Add that ojdbc.jar right click --> build path--> configure build path--> Add external jars--> your local machine ojdbc path -->ok.
It worked in my case.

Answer 2

step 1:You POM.xml file should be
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0</version>
</dependency>
Step 2:Download the ojdbc6 driver from oracle website and keep it in your local machine.
step 3:Run maven below command.Dfile is the location where i kept my jar file downloaded from oracle website
mvn install:install-file
-Dfile=C:\Users\santosh\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6.jar
-DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dversion=11.2.0 -Dpackaging=jar
After running maven command it should create ojdbc6-11.2.0 in your maven repository.After that your problem should be fixed.

Answer 3

Make sure that in your IDE you click maven reimport if it is not reimporting automatically (i.e. IntelliJ: right click project, Maven, Reimport), as it will compile fine without being on the classpath, but fail at runtime

Answer 4

In pom.xml add dependency as told by Santosh.
In Eclipse IDE Right click upon your Project and select -- Run As -- Maven build... -- in Goals provide below line and Run. I have just removed mvn and pointed ojdbc6.jar location in my local machine.
install:install-file -Dfile=D:\oracle11gXE\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\jdbc\lib\ojdbc6.jar -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dversion=11.2.0 -Dpackaging=jar
Again in Eclipse IDE Right click upon your Project and select -- Maven -- Update Project... -- select Force Update of Snapshots/Releases along with other default options and click OK.
ojdbc6-11.2.0.jar should reflect under Maven Dependencies.