How do I make my Java application identify itself to Oracle on connection?

Question

When my application connects to an Oracle database I want to be able to see by looking at the active sessions in the database that it is connected. Currently it identifies i

Answer 1

Since oracle jdbc 12.1 you can set some client-info values via jdbc api, i.e. you can do

connection.setClientInfo("OCSID.CLIENTID", "MyClientId");

for properties OCSID...

ACTION, CLIENTID, ECID, MODULE, SEQUENCE_NUMBER and DBOP

See https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/JJDBC/jdbcvers.htm#JJDBC29006

Setting PROGRAM doesn't work this way, you can do that as described in the accepted answer or somewhat easier by setting the System property "oracle.jdbc.v$session.program".