Setting up maven dependency for SQL Server

Question

I am developing a portlet where I have Hibernate access to SQL Server database. I set up maven dependencies for it and try to find out SQL Server connector

Answer 1

Download the driver JAR from the link provided by Olaf and add it to your local Maven repository with;

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=sqljdbc4.jar -DgroupId=com.microsoft.sqlserver -DartifactId=sqljdbc4 -Dversion=4.0 -Dpackaging=jar

Then add it to your project with;

  com.microsoft.sqlserver
  sqljdbc4
  4.0