I am helping to evaluate a J2EE application that will use Oracle as its database.
We have identified 3 possible JDBC driver versions to use:
- 11.2.0.1.0
- 11.1.0.6.0
- 11.1.0.7.0
The version of the Oracle database is 11.1.0.6.0. According to our DBA the safest bet is to use the JDBC driver whose version number matches that of the database, which seems logical. However, looking at the release notes of 11.1.0.6.0 and 11.1.0.7.0 (those links may not work if you don't have an account on OTN) it seems to me that the latter driver is the best one to go for as it seems to be a bug fix release of the driver meant for the database version we are using.
Is this the correct assumption?
