Use tnsnames.ora in Oracle SQL Developer

Question

I am evaluating Oracle SQL Developer.

My tnsnames.ora is populated, and a tnsping to a connection defined in tnsnames.ora work

Answer 1

On the newer versions of macOS, one also has to set java.library.path. The easiest/safest way to do that [1] is by creating ~/.sqldeveloper//sqldeveloper.conf file and populating it as such:

AddVMOption -Djava.library.path=

[1] https://community.oracle.com/message/14132189#14132189