Oracle jdbc driver class and classes12.jar whether deprecated.?

Question

Hi All,
1. In one of the post, it has been told that oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver will be deprecated and also recommended to used oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver.
According to that post, I changed the driver class name in my code as below:
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");
Then to check the driver name, I insert the below code:
Enumeration<Driver> driverEnum = DriverManager.getDrivers();
+while (driverEnum.hasMoreElements()){+
System.out.println("driver : "driverEnum.nextElement());+
+}+
Below is the output:
driver : oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver@addbf1
Even after specifying the driver class name to be used as oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver, why it is taking oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver..?
INFO : The Oracle JDBC Driver (classes12.jar) version is 10.2.0.4.0.
2. We are using classes12.jar for developing all JDBC code. In Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2.0) JDBC Drivers, there is no classes12.jar. Is this deprecated? Which jar can be used instead of classes12.jar?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2.0) JDBC Drivers, there is no classes12.jar. Is this deprecated? Which jar can be used instead of classes12.jar?For JDBC 4.0 features ojdbc6.jar with JDK 6.0.
For JDBC 3.0 support ojdbc 5.jar with JDK 5.0
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/jdbc-112010-090769.html