I wanted to use Oracle 11g as my db for java code. I tried to get the drivers from the oracle website. I saw so many files with some jargon thrown in here and there. I need to know what those words mean and how they affect me as a user. How do I decide which one to use ? I picked ojdbc6.jar because I use jdk 6. Please help me to understand what the descriptions of the file mean and who should be concerned about them and why ?
ojdbc6.jar - Classes for use with JDK 1.6. It contains
the JDBC driver classes except classes for NLS support in
Oracle Object and Collection types.
ojdbc6_g.jar - Same as ojdbc6.jar except compiled
with "javac -g" and contains tracing code.
ojdbc6dms.jar - Same as ojdbc6.jar, except
that it contains instrumentation to support DMS
and limited java.util.logging calls.
orai18n.jar - NLS classes for use with JDK 1.5, and
1.6. It contains classes for NLS support in Oracle
Object and Collection types. This jar file replaces
the old nls_charset jar/zip files.
xdb6.jar - To use the standard JDBC4.0 java.sql.SQLXML
interface with JDBC 11.2.0.3, you need to use xdb6.jar
(instead of xdb.jar) from the 11.2.0.3 distribution.
EDIT -
Btw, what is the SimpleFan.jar for ? I saw that too.
Thanks.