How to Upgrade the JDBC driver in Weblogic10.3

How to upgrade the JDBC driver which bundled with WebLogic 10.3 with the later Oracle Database 11g Release 2?

Solution

WebLogic 10gR3 is bundled with JDBC driver 11.1.0.6; the latest  release version id is 11.2.0.1.0 (11g Release 2).

The steps below show you how to upgrade to the later release:

Download lastest version of JDBC driver from 

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html

Replace BEA_HOME\wls103\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\ojdbc6.jar with the lastest ojdbc6.jar

Replace BEA_HOME\wlserver_10.3\server\ext\jdbc\oracle\11g\orai18n.jar with the lastest orai18n.jar

Restart WebLogic and test your data source