If you're forced to update some Java based Web application using Java + Tomcat / WebSphere / Weblogic it is a common thing that the Java App developer handed to you will ask you which version is the Oracle JDBC / ODBC driver on current Java Virtual Machine version installed.
Actually there are few methods to check Java JDBC / ODBC version:
1. Check Java ODBC version greeping it in WEB-INF/MANIFEST.MF
Usually the .jar file comes archived in a .ZIP – i.e. application-name5 .zip
server:~# unzip application-name5.zip
Then if the .zip file contains the OJDBC as a .JAR extension – (Java Archive), inflate it with jar tool.
server:~# jar -xvf ojdbc7.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
inflated: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
server:~# grep Implementation META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
Implementation-Vendor: Oracle Corporation
Implementation-Title: JDBC
Implementation-Version: 12.1.0.1.0
Alternative way to check the info (if you don't have java or jar installed on the Linux / Unix machine) is simply with unzip + grep like so:
server:~# unzip -p ojdbc14.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF | grep -C 1 version
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Version: "Oracle JDBC Driver version – 10.1.0.5.0"
Specification-Title: "Oracle JDBC driver classes for use with JDK1.4"
Specification-Version: "Oracle JDBC Driver version – 10.1.0.5.0"
Implementation-Title: "ojdbc14.jar"
If you're on a Windows (and you have Windows server grep.exe installed), use instead:
C:\jar> unzip -p ojdbc14.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF | grep -C version
2. Getting some info with Java JRE tool
You can check some useful Java version info also just with Java Runtime Environment (java) tool
server:~# java -jar ojdbc5.jar
Oracle 11.1.0.7.0-Production JDBC 3.0 compiled with JDK5
