Oracle Eloqua JDBC 6.0.0
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Progress(R) DataDirect(R)
Progress(R) DataDirect(R) for JDBC(TM) for Oracle Eloqua(TM) Driver
Release 6.0.0
February 2026
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CONTENTS
Post-GA Product Announcements
Requirements
Installation directory
Data Source and Platform Support
Changes since 6.0
Release 6.0 Features
Notes, known problems, and restrictions
Documentation
Installed files
Post-GA Product Announcements
The readme files will no longer be updated with product announcements and new
features after the General Availability (GA) of the product. For the latest
updates and enhancements, please refer to the release notes
(https://www.progress.com/datadirect-connectors/whats-new).
Requirements
* A supported Java Virtual Machine (JVM) must be defined on your system path.
* The installer program requires a JVM that is Java SE 11 or higher, including
Oracle JDK, OpenJDK, and IBM SDK (Java) distributions.
* The driver requires a JVM that is Java SE 8 or higher, including Oracle JDK,
OpenJDK, and IBM SDK (Java) distributions.
Installation directory
The default installation directory for the driver is:
* Windows:
C:\Program Files\Progress\DataDirect\JDBC
* UNIX/Linux:
/opt/Progress/DataDirect/JDBC
Note: For UNIX/Linux, if you do not have access to "/opt", your user's
directory should be used in place of this directory.
Data Source and Platform Support
For the latest data source and platform support information, refer to the
Product Compatibility Guide:
https://docs.progress.com/bundle/datadirect-product-compatibility/resource/
datadirect-product-compatibility.pdf
Changes since 6.0
CVE-2022-41853 - Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code
('Unsafe Reflection')
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Several Progress DataDirect JDBC drivers utilized a version of HyperSQL
Database that was vulnerable to remote code execution described in
CVE-2022-41853. All impacted drivers have been patched to fix this
vulnerability. For details on impacted drivers and fixed versions, refer to
the following KB article:
https://community.progress.com/s/article/DataDirect-JDBC-Critical-Security-
Bulletin-November-2022-CVE-2022-41853
Documentation
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Any product package made available after August 7, 2020 will not include the
HTML help system or user's guide PDF. The full documentation set, including
these items, is available from the Progress Information Hub:
https://docs.progress.com/category/datadirect-oracle-eloqua
While the product packages will not include these documentation items, the
installation Help directory will provide an HTML redirect for direct access
to the HTML help.
Note that all Progress DataDirect for JDBC documentation has been migrated to
the Progress Information Hub:
https://docs.progress.com/
Enhancements
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* The driver has been enhanced to comply with FIPS standards for data
encryption. As part of this enhancement, the driver was tested with
FIPS 140-3 enabled using a Red Hat OpenJDK 21 on a Red Hat Universal Base
Image 9 instance.
* The driver has been enhanced to use proxy server settings defined in the JVM
system properties by default. If no proxy settings are defined in the
connection string or data source, the driver will attempt to use the values
of the http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort JVM system properties to connect to
the database.
* The driver has been enhanced to include timestamp in the Spy and JDBC packet
logs by default. If required, you can disable the timestamp logging by
specifying the following at connection: For Spy logs, set
spyAttributes=(log=(file)Spy.log;timestamp=no) and for JDBC packet logs,
set ddtdbg.ProtocolTraceShowTime=false.
* Interactive SQL for JDBC (JDBCISQL) is now installed with the product.
JDBCISQL is a command-line interface that supports connecting your driver
to a data source, executing SQL statements and retrieving results in a
terminal. This tool provides a method to quickly test your drivers in an
environment that does not support GUIs.
Changed Behavior
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* The connection property SpyAttributes has been updated to exclude the
attribute load=classname, which was previously used to load the driver
specified by the given class name. See SpyAttributes for details.
* The installer program now requires you to install a JRE that is Java SE 11 or
higher before running the installer. In earlier versions, the JRE used by the
installer program was included in the product. However, to avoid potential
security vulnerabilities, the installer program no longer includes a JRE.
Instead, the installer program uses the JRE in your environment to allow for
the most secure version of a JRE to be used.
Note: This change does not affect the JVM requirements for the driver. For the latest
driver requirements, refer to the Product Compatibility Guide:
https://docs.progress.com/bundle/datadirect-product-compatibility/resource/
datadirect-product-compatibility.pdf
* Java SE 7 has reached the end of its product life cycle and will no longer
receive generally available security updates. As a result, the drivers will no
longer support JVMs that are version Java SE 7 or earlier. Support for
distributed versions of Java SE 7 and earlier will also end, including
IBM SDK (Java Edition).
Release 6.0 Features
The driver supports standard supports SQL read-write access to Oracle Eloqua.
To support SQL access to Oracle Eloqua, the driver creates a relational map of
the Oracle Eloqua data model and translates SQL statements provided by the
application to Oracle Eloqua queries and web service calls. The driver
optimizes performance when executing joins by leveraging data relationships
among Oracle Eloqua objects to minimize the amount of data that needs to be
fetched over the network. The driver recognizes the relationships among
standard objects and custom objects and can access and update each.
Relationships among objects can be reported with JDBC the metadata methods.
* The driver supports all JDBC Core functions.
* The driver supports the core SQL-92 grammar.
* The driver supports connecting through a proxy server.
* The driver uses a combination of REST and BULK APIs for optimized fetch
operations.
* The driver supports retrieving LONGVARCHAR data, using JDBC methods designed
for Character Large Object (CLOB) data.
* The driver supports timeout functionality.
* The driver supports the following data types:
- ARRAY maps to VARCHAR
- BOOLEAN maps to BOOLEAN
- DATETIME maps to TIMESTAMP
- DECIMAL maps to DECIMAL
- DURATION maps to VARCHAR
- INTEGER maps to INTEGER
- LARGETEXT maps to LONGVARCHAR
- LONG maps to BIGINT
- TEXT maps to VARCHAR
- URL maps to VARCHAR
Notes, known problems, and restrictions
The following are notes, known problems, and restrictions with the Oracle
Eloqua driver.
Update and Delete
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Only one record at a time can be updated or deleted. Therefore, the number of
APIs executed depends on the number of rows that get updated or deleted by
the query plus the number of API calls required to fetch the IDs for those
records.
Text field metadata
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Lengths of certain text fields are reported as higher than the actual lengths.
REST API issues
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We are currently working with Oracle to resolve the following issues.
* AND operators that involve different columns are optimized. In other cases,
the queries are only partially optimized.
* OR operators on the same column are optimized. In other cases, the queries
are completely post-processed.
* The data store is not able to insert or update the NULL value to any field
explicitly.
* The data store is unable to update few fields. They are always reported as
NULL after update.
* Oracle Eloqua uses a double colon (::) as an internal delimiter for
multivalued Select fields. Hence when a value with the semi-colon character
(;) is inserted or updated into a multivalued Select field, the semicolon
character gets converted into the double colon character.
* Query SELECT count (*) from template returns incorrect results.
* Oracle Eloqua APIs do not populate the correct values in CreatedBy and
UpdatedBy fields. Instead of user names, they contain a Timestamp value.
* Only equality filters on id fields are optimized. All other filter
conditions are not working correctly with Oracle Eloqua APIs and the data
store is doing post-processing for such filters.
* Filters on Non-ID Integer fields and Boolean fields are not working
correctly. Hence the driver needs to post-process all these queries.
* The data store does not distinguish between NULL and empty string.
Therefore, null fields are often reported back as empty strings.
* Values with special characters such as curly braces ({,}), back slash (\),
colon (:), slash star (/*) and star slash (*/) are not supported in where
clause filter value.
Executing DataDirect shell script
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For UNIX/Linux users: If you receive an error message when executing any
DataDirect for JDBC shell script, make sure that the file has EXECUTE
permission. To do this, use the chmod command. For example, to grant EXECUTE
permission to the testforjdbc.sh file, change to the directory containing
testforjdbc.sh and enter: chmod +x testforjdbc.sh
Scroll sensitive requests
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When attempting to create an updatable, scroll-sensitive result set for a
query that contains an expression as one of the columns, the driver cannot
satisfy the scroll-sensitive request. The driver downgrades the type of the
result returned to scroll-insensitive.
ResultSet methods getTimestamp(), getDate(), and getTime()
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The ResultSet methods getTimestamp(), getDate(), and getTime() return
references to mutable objects. If the object reference returned from any of
these methods is modified, re-fetching the column using the same method
returns the modified value. The value is only modified in memory; the database
value is not modified.
Documentation
PROGRESS DATADIRECT FOR JDBC FOR ORACLE ELOQUA DOCUMENTATION SET
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The driver documentation set is available from the Progress Information Hub:
https://docs.progress.com/category/datadirect-oracle-eloqua
You can access the online help system directly via the HTML redirect in the
installation Help directory.
Installed Files
When you extract the contents of the installation download package to your
installer directory, you will notice the following files that are required to
install the driver:
* Windows:
- PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_JDBC_INSTALL.exe
- DriverModules
- PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_JDBC_ELOQUA_6.0.0_INSTALL.iam.zip
- PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_JDBC_COMMON_6.0.0_INSTALL.iam.zip
* Non-Windows:
- PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_JDBC_INSTALL.jar
- DriverModules
- PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_JDBC_ELOQUA_6.0.0_INSTALL.iam.zip
- PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_JDBC_COMMON_6.0.0_INSTALL.iam.zip
When you install the driver, the installer creates the following directories and
files in the product installation directory in the default installation
directory or in an installation directory you specify, represented by
INSTALL_DIR.
INSTALL_DIR/:
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LicenseTool.jar Product license file manager
ddprocinfo.exe Windows executable to start the Processor Information
Utility
ddprocinfo UNIX/Linux script to start the Processor Information
Utility
INSTALL_DIR/Examples/Connector/:
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ConnectorSample.ear J2EE Application Enterprise Archive file containing
the ConnectorSample application
connectorsample.htm USING DATADIRECT CONNECT FOR JDBC RESOURCE ADAPTERS
document
graphics/*.* Images referenced by the USING DATADIRECT CONNECT FOR
JDBC RESOURCE ADAPTERS document
src/ConnectorSample.jsp Source for the JavaServer Page used to access the
ConnectorSample application
src/connectorsample/ConnectorSample.java
Java source file defining the remote interface for
the ConnectorSample EJB
src/connectorsample/ConnectorSampleBean.java
Java source file defining the home interface for the
ConnectorSample EJB
src/connectorsample/ConnectorSampleHome.java
Java source file containing the implementation for
the ConnectorSample EJB
INSTALL_DIR/Examples/JNDI/:
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JNDI_FILESYSTEM_Example.java
Example Java(TM) source file
JNDI_LDAP_Example.java Example Java source file
INSTALL_DIR/Examples/OracleEloquaSamples/:
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buildsamples.bat Batch file to build the Eloqua example
buildsamples.sh Shell script to build the Eloqua example
runeloquaconnectsample.bat
Batch file to run the Eloqua example
runeloquaconnectsample.sh
Shell script to run the Eloqua example
bin/com/ddtek/jdbc/samples/EloquaConnectSample.class
Java example class
bin/com/ddtek/jdbc/samples/SampleException.class
Java example class
src/com/ddtek/jdbc/samples/EloquaConnectSample.java
Java source example
INSTALL_DIR/help/:
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*.html HTML redirects to driver help systems
INSTALL_DIR/install/:
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.psc_dd_inst_reg.xml Support file for the installation logs
logs/*.* Log file generated upon installing or uninstalling
INSTALL_DIR/jdbcisql/:
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jdbcisql.bat Batch file to start JDBC iSQL
jdbcisql.jar Java program to start JDBC iSQL
jdbcisql.sh Shell script to start JDBC iSQL
INSTALL_DIR/lib/60/:
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eloqua.jar Oracle Eloqua Driver and DataSource classes
INSTALL_DIR/NOTICES/:
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JDBC for Oracle Eloqua v6.0 notices.txt
Third party agreement information
INSTALL_DIR/pool manager/:
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pool.jar All DataDirect Connection Pool Manager classes
INSTALL_DIR/READMES/:
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JDBC for Oracle Eloqua v6.0 readme.txt
This file
INSTALL_DIR/testforjdbc/:
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Config.txt Configuration file for DataDirect Test
ddlogging.properties Logging properties file
testforjdbc.bat Batch file to start DataDirect Test
testforjdbc.sh Shell script to start DataDirect Test
lib/testforjdbc.jar DataDirect Test classes
INSTALL_DIR/uninstall/:
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.com.zerog.registry.xml Support file for the uninstaller
.psc_dd_uninst_reg.xml Support file for the uninstaller
InstallScript.iap_xml Support file for the uninstaller
installvariables.properties
Support file for the Windows uninstaller
Uninstall_JDBC.exe Windows uninstaller
Uninstall_JDBC.lax Support file for the Windows uninstaller
uninstaller.jar Java uninstaller
eloqua/*.* Support files for the uninstaller
resource/*.* Resource files for the Windows uninstaller
February 2026
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