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

There is also an alternative: you could use the open-source jTDS driver for MS-SQL Server, which is compatible although not made by Microsoft. For that driver, there is a maven artifact that you can use:

http://jtds.sourceforge.net/

From http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.sourceforge.jtds/jtds :

    net.sourceforge.jtds
    jtds
    1.3.1

UPDATE nov 2016, Microsoft now published its MSSQL JDBC driver on github and it's also available on maven now:

    com.microsoft.sqlserver
    mssql-jdbc
    6.1.0.jre8