title: Oracle JDBC 7 as Maven dependency
body: <p>I'm attempting to add Oracle JDBC to my project as a maven dependency. I've followed multiple tutorials online which suggest various means to add a third party dependency. </p>
  
  <p>I've opted for the local installation method, but like (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9898499/oracle-jdbc-ojdbc6-jar-as-a-maven-dependency">this person</a>) I'm experiencing issues. </p>
  
  <p>I run the following command to install the jar:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn install:install-file -Dfile={lib/ojdbc7.jar} -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc7 -Dversion=12.1.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and it succeeds with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3:install-file (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
  [INFO] Installing /home/&lt;myfolder&gt;/{lib/ojdbc7.jar} to /home/&lt;myname&gt;/.m2/repository/com/oracle/ojdbc7/12.1.0.1/ojdbc7-12.1.0.1.jar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have then added the following to my pom:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.oracle&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;ojdbc7&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;12.1.0.1&lt;/version&gt;
   &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and yet when I compile I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 0.307s
  [INFO] Finished at: Sat May 02 20:40:07 NZST 2015
  [INFO] Final Memory: 8M/56M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project xxx: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.xxx:xxx:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find com.oracle:ojdbc7:jar:12.1.0.1 in http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've played around with the <code>-U</code> and <code>-o</code> flags to no avail. I have also tried installing the jar by first cding into the lib directory (as suggested by Raghuram on the other question) with no change.</p>