uPortal uses Maven for dependency management. To add your JDBC driver you need to know the Maven groupId, artifactId and version for the JAR and add this information to the /uPortal/uportal-impl/pom.xml file. The PostgreSQL example below can be followed for any JDBC driver that can be found in the central Maven repository, this includes most open source JDBC drivers. The Oracle example below can be followed for any JDBC driver that cannot be found in the central Maven repository, this includes most closed-source There is a section about 20 lines down from the top with instructions pertaining to JDBC drivers.
Example using PostgreSQL
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