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Since the Oracle JDBC driver is not available in the central Maven repository it must be placed into the local repository on each machine you wish to build uPortal on. An alternative to installing the JAR on each machine you can setup a maven repository for use by multiple machines.
The first step is determine if you have the Oracle client and Oracle JDBC drivers installed on your local machine. If Oracle is installed on your local machine it will be located at $ORACLE_HOME. Try to locate the driver using the following command:
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ls $ORACLE_HOME/lib/
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If you cannot locate it download the correct Oracle JDBC driver for your database. Once you have the jar it needs to be installed into your local maven repository using the following command:
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The -DgroupId, -DartifactId and -Dversion specified in this command are up to you but they should match the JAR vendor, name and version to avoid confusion down the road.
The -Dfile is the Oracel JDBC driver. You should include the working directory path in the event the driver is is not in the directory you are running maven from.
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