Maven ojdbc jar dependency error: package oracle.jdbc does not exist

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Am trying to use jdbc connection in my Java EE6 application(class name VisualizerRepository.java), i have the jdbc driver in nexus repository

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I tried to get gradle to pull the jar from my local maven repo and even using flatDir in the repositories closure, but to no effect. In the end, I created a lib folder in my project and put the jar in it and added

dependencies {
    ...
    compile files('lib/ojdbc7.jar')
    ...
}

I don't think this is the prettiest way to handle it, but it worked, and it's good enough for now.