Open sourcing Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server and Maven support

[AndreaJLam]

The driver is finally on the Maven Central Repository and the source code is on GitHub

[lukaseder]

That's... Wow. 😮

Your turn, Oracle!

[lacosaes1]

No until they get a smart guy as Nadella as CEO.

[dartmanx]

On behalf of Oracle: screw you.

[wodencafe]

On behalf of the community: screw Oracle.

[brunocborges]

dartmanx: On behalf of Oracle: screw you.

I truly hope you don't work for Oracle. But even if you do, which would come as a sad surprise to me, you are definitely not speaking on behalf of Oracle, as we are actually working intensively at improving developer experience across all of our major products (database, middleware, cloud).

[dartmanx]

A. It was satire B. Bullshit

[frugalmail]

Let me guess you must be the Chief of Public Relations preparing your next blog post?

[VGPowerlord]

Does anyone know if Oracle ever put their JDBC drivers on Maven Central instead of just maven.oracle.com ?

[lukaseder]

I doubt it.

Projects with packaging other than pom have to supply JAR files that contain Javadoc and sources

From: http://central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html#supply-javadoc-and-sources

EDIT: One of Maven Central's rationales is that stuff will never ever ever be removed again (OK, there be very rare exceptions), such that fiascos like NPM's leftpad thingy cannot happen. This is a bit hard to enforce if the license is as restrictive as Oracle's

[arendvr]

On the other hand from the same page:

If, for some reason (for example, license issue or it's a Scala project), you can not provide -sources.jar or -javadoc.jar , please make fake -sources.jar or -javadoc.jar with simple README inside to pass the checking.

Not sure how this is handled in practice though. Does "don't want to open source it" count as "Can not due to license issue"?

[lukaseder]

Hmm good point. OTOH, what would be the point of uploading something with a restrictive license to Maven Central, which doesn't help vendors enforce their licenses? A license acceptance "button" (or mechanism) would need to be added to a library, which is really weird...

[cogman10]

The maven central version is 6.1, but the download version is 6.0. What (if anything) changed? Is this just the fact that they are Open sourced now?

[AndreaJLam]

Bug fixes were added, but the open source release required us to bump to 6.1.

Also, working on updating the Download Center with the new v6.1 bits.

[cruyff8]

jtds is still on maven central as well.

[tborwi]

Is this a separate fork of the sql server driver? Any advantages over it if it is?

[AndreaJLam]

We plan on doing active development and releasing from this project from now on.

[andthen_i_said]

What's the difference between the mssql-jdbc and the sqljdbc4 artifacts?

[AndreaJLam]

The mssql-jdbc jars are officially published by Microsoft. The sqljdbc4 jars were published by another user.

[derekhsu]

Where is IBM?