🏎 Adding MariaDB JDBC Connector to WildFly 18

Install the database driver as a module

1. Create the directory on WildFly home directory:

   C:\Servers\wildfly-18.0.1.Final\wildfly-18.0.1.Final\modules\com\mariadb\main

2. Copy the database driver: mariadb-java-client-2.4.1 into specified directory

3. Create the file module.xml in the same directory with the following XML content:

<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="com.mariadb">
    <resources>
        <resource-root path="mariadb-java-client-2.4.1.jar"/>
    </resources>
    <dependencies>
        <module name="javax.api"/>
        <module name="javax.transaction.api"/>
    </dependencies>
</module>

4. Start WildFly in bin directory as standalone.bat for Windows

5. Access to WildFly web console and go to the following configuration path: Configuration - Subsystems - Datasources and drivers - JDBC drivers

6. Enter the following information for MariaDB driver:

Driver name: mariadb

Driver Module Name: com.mariadb

Driver Class Name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver