Requirements and Compatibilities for Oracle JDBC Drivers

Table 2-1 lists the compatibilities between Oracle JDBC driver versions and Oracle database versions. The JDK versions supported by each JDBC driver version are also listed.

Note: Notice that starting with release 8.1.6, the Oracle JDBC drivers no longer support JDK 1.0.x versions.

Table 2-1 JDBC Driver-Database Compatibility

Driver Versions	Database Versions Supported	JDK Versions Supported	Drivers Available	Remarks
8.1.6	8.1.6, 8.1.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.5, 8.0.4, 7.3.4	1.2.x, 1.1.x	JDBC Thin driver JDBC OCI driver JDBC server-side Thin driver JDBC server-side internal driver (supports 8.1.6 database and JDK 1.2.x only)	The Thin driver is now also available in the server with the standard server installation. This has the same usage and functionality as the client-side Thin driver, for accessing a remote database from inside a database.
8.1.5	8.1.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.5, 8.0.4, 7.3.4	1.1.x, 1.0.x	JDBC Thin driver JDBC OCI driver JDBC server-side internal driver (supports 8.1.5 database and JDK 1.1.x only)	Both client- and server-side drivers offer full support for structured objects when run against an 8.1.5 database.
8.0.6	8.0.6, 8.0.5, 8.0.4, 7.3.4	1.1.x, 1.0.x	JDBC Thin driver JDBC OCI driver Note: the JDBC server-side internal driver is not available for 8.0.x and prior versions.	.
8.0.5	8.0.5, 8.0.4, 7.3.4	1.1.x, 1.0.x	JDBC Thin driver JDBC OCI driver Note: the JDBC server-side internal driver is not available for 8.0.x and prior versions.
8.0.4	8.0.4, 7.3.4	1.1.x, 1.0.x	JDBC Thin driver JDBC OCI driver Note: the JDBC server-side internal driver is not available for 8.0.x and prior versions.
7.3.4	7.3.4	1.1.x, 1.0.x	JDBC Thin driver JDBC OCI driver Note: the JDBC server-side internal driver is not available for 8.0.x and prior versions.

Notes: Different JDKs require different class files--classes in classes12.zip, classes111.zip, and classes102.zip, respectively. The JDBC drivers do not support structured objects when run against an 8.0.x database. This is because JDBC depends on PL/SQL functions that did not exist in those releases. There is no structured object or LOB support in Oracle 7.3.x. Any client-side driver might work with 7.x databases prior to 7.3.4, but this has not been tested and is not supported.

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